Medical Dictionary

isopyknosis

noun iso·pyk·no·sis

Medical Definition of ISOPYKNOSIS

:  the quality or state of some chromosomes or of parts of some chromosomes in a nucleus of staining uniformly and being coiled to the same degree—compare heteropyknosis
iso·pyk·not·ic also iso·pyc·not·ic \-ˈnät-ik\ adjective

Variants of ISOPYKNOSIS

iso·pyk·no·sis also iso·pyc·no·sis \ˌī-sō-pik-ˈnō-səs\

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