Words that rhyme with syndesis

n 1: the origin and development and variation of cells [syn: cytogenesis, cytogeny]

n 1: pathological breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

n 1: the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body

n 1: a female person who has the same parents as another person; "my sister married a musician" [syn: sister, sis] [ant: blood brother, brother]

n 1: passing small stones with the urine

n 1: medication with antipyretics to treat a fever

n 1: the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode [syn: electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis]

n 1: organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells

n 1: the final stage of the prophase of meiosis

n 1: passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue

n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis] 2: the accumulation of blood in an organ 3: any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united [syn: hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ] 4: (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality

n 1: periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles [syn: molt, molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis]