central body

1. 1.

   small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules

   Synonymscentrosome

   Broadercytoplasm

Questions about central body

What does central body mean?

central body means "small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules".

What is another word for central body?

Close synonyms include centrosome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is central body a common word?

central body is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.