cytoskeleton
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.30 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A matrix of intercellular protein, in the forms of microfilaments and microtubules, that provide some rigidity to cells
Example Sentences
- "Thus, large systems such as viruses, multienzyme complexes, cell-cytoskeleta and flagella are usually constructed from multiple copies of the same protein."
- "Judged from Electron-Microscopy (EM) studies of bilayer depleted cytoskeleta the spectrin/actin network exhibits basically a hexagonal (triangular) topology."
- "In this process, cellular debris and cytoskeleta of the lysed cells were effectively removed, and the underlying ECM remained intact and adhered to the entire area of the tissue culture dish."
- "Cells including leukocytes are not just bags of cytosol, but have structured cytoskeleta, surface structures, and different viscoelastic properties at different length and time scales."
- "One may consider then the resulting forms as due to the plasticity of organismal development, as cytoskeleta seem shaped, not just selected, also by gravity."
- "The Poisson distribution can model fiber-fiber contacts in random fiber networks. Biological examples include connective tissues (cartilage and tendons) and cellular cytoskeleta."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos)lbor. English cyto- English skeleton English cytoskeleton From cyto- + skeleton.