anastate
Meanings
noun
- One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm.
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Etymology
From ana- (“upwards”, compare anabolism) + Ancient Greek στατός (statós, “placed, standing”), from ἵστημι (hístēmi).
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