pyknosis

pyknosis
pyknosis [pik nō′sis]
n.
pl. pyknoses [pyk no′sēz΄]
a process of thickening, esp. in the shrinking nucleus of a degenerating cell
pyknotic [pyknät′ik]
adj.

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