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Barr body
(Barr body)
Pronunciation:
/bɑːˈbɒdi/
noun
Physiology
a small, densely staining structure in the cell nuclei of females, consisting of a condensed, inactive X chromosome. It is regarded as diagnostic of genetic femaleness.
Origin:
1960s
: named after the Canadian anatomist M. L.
Barr
(1908–95)
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