mesosome

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

A folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.

Adj

Average-bodied; neither broad nor narrow in proportion to height or length.

Sinónimos

midbody

Traducciones

mésosome

Etimología (Inglés)

From meso- + -some.