In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CHROMOSOME
chromosome
(noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; “humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
chromosome (plural chromosomes)
(cytology, genetics) A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.
Source: Wiktionary
Chro"mo*some`, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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MEGACOLON
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