Relating to or characterized by amitosis; describing cell division that occurs without the typical spindle-based mechanisms of mitosis.
Formed from 'amitosis' plus the suffix '-ic' (relating to or of the nature of), creating a standard English adjective. The term follows scientific naming conventions from 19th-century biology.
Calling something 'amitotic' became less common as biologists realized the phenomenon was mostly cells dying rather than dividing—it's an example of how scientific terminology can preserve observations that later proved to be misinterpretations.
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