contractile ring

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contractile ring [kən′trak·təl ‚riŋ]

(cell and molecular biology)

A cytoskeletal structure that forms in animal cells and many unicellular eukaryotes during cell division, contraction of which causes the plasma membrane to pinch inward and the cell to divide.

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