intermitoticadj.

1942 E. V. Cowdry Probl. Ageing (ed. 2) xxiv. 627 The daughter epidermal cells that retain a basal location..are comparatively undifferentiated and may be called vegetative intermitotics.

1942 E. V. Cowdry Probl. Ageing (ed. 2) xxiv. 627 The cells that are formed from vegetative intermitotics, and begin to differentiate may also be intermitotic with lives extending from one mitosis to the next. Their lives are, however, different insofar that they exhibit increasing specialization. Consequently they may be designated differentiating intermitotics.

1948 W. Andrew tr. E. D. P. de Robertis Gen. Cytol. xii. 324 Cowdry has classified cells into four groups on the basis of their degree of differentiation and ability to divide. The first group, vegetative intermitotic cells, comprises those undifferentiated cells which have the capacity to multiply continually.

1962 L. von Sallmann et al. in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism 449 The intermitotic, or turnover, time was estimated as 19 days for the equatorial zone..of the lens epithelium of young rats.

1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. i. 13 The appearance of the inter-mitotic nucleus in living cells.

1968 M. W. Strickberger Genetics ii. 13 As compared to the period of active mitosis..the interphase or ‘intermitotic’ period of most cells is usually many times longer.