Word Study
mitosis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mitosis has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mitosis, n. Biol. a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus (cf. MEIOSIS).
Derivative
mitotic adj.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk mitos thread
For further exploring for "mitosis" in Webster Dictionary Online