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sex chromatin

Syllabification: (sex chro·ma·tin)
Definition of sex chromatin

noun

Biology
  • material found only in the nuclei of female cells (especially as the Barr body) and believed to represent the inactivated X chromosome.

sex chromatin in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of sex chromatin in the British & World English dictionary