Relating to or characterized by endomitosis, the type of cell growth where chromosomes replicate without dividing the nucleus.
From 'endomitosis' plus the adjective suffix '-ic.' This technical term emerged alongside endomitosis in 20th-century cell biology as researchers described unusual polyploid cell populations.
Cancer cells sometimes trick themselves into endomitotic divisions, creating bizarre giant cells with hundreds of chromosomes—which paradoxically sometimes makes them unstable enough to self-destruct, nature's own cancer-fighting mechanism.
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