Medical Dictionary
female pronucleus
noun
Medical Definition of FEMALE PRONUCLEUS
: the nucleus that remains in a female gamete after the meiotic reduction division and extrusion of polar bodies and contains only one half the number of chromosomes characteristic of its species—compare male pronucleus
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