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promitosis

noun
pro·mitosis | \¦prō+\

Definition of promitosis 

: a primitive intranuclear mitosis in protistans characterized by absence of asters and the presence of a karyosome — compare haplomitosis

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New Latin, from pro- entry 1 + mitosis

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