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spindle fiber [′spin·dəl ‚fī·bər]

(cell and molecular biology)

One of the fiberlike elements of the spindle; an aggregation of microtubules resulting from the polymerization of a series of small protein fibrils by primary ‒S‒S‒ linkages.

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