diakinesisn.
/ˌdʌɪəkʌɪˈniːsɪs/ Cytology.
The last stage of meiotic prophase, immediately preceding the disappearance of the nuclear membrane.
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zonation1899
diakinesis1902
parasynapsis1909
syndesis1909
parasyndesis1911
non-disjunction1913
non-conjunction1925
asynapsis1930
stathmokinesis1938
misdivision1939
metakinesis1948
tandem duplication1959
1902 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) 440 Diakinesis (διά, through), the segmented-spireme-stage, following the synapsis, in the primary oöcyte or spermatocyte, during which the chromosomes persist for a considerable period in the form of double rods.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 784/1 The nuclear wall is dissolved and the chromosomes separate as if repelled from one another: this process is known as ‘diakinesis’.
1939 Nature 8 July 81/1 The number of bivalents attached to the nucleolus at zygotene to diakinesis.
1970 E. J. Ambrose & D. M. Easty Cell Biol. x. 326 The final stage of the first prophase of meiosis is sometimes called diakinesis (or ‘moving apart’).
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