polar body

1. 1.

   a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded

   Broadercell

Questions about polar body

What does polar body mean?

polar body means "a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded".

Is polar body a common word?

polar 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.