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Medical Dictionary

karyotype

Pronunciation (kar'e-o-tip)
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  1. The chromosome characteristics of an individual cell or of a cell line arranged in descending order of size and according to the position of the centromere. Usually presented as a systematized array of metaphase chromosomes from a photomicrograph of a single cell nucleus.

Syn: idiogram (1) , karyogram

[karyo- + G. typos, model]

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