Medical Term:
acropetal
Pronunciation: ă-krop′ĕ-tăl
Definition:
- In a direction toward the summit.
- Produced successively toward the apex, with the youngest conidium formed at the tip and the oldest at the base of a chain of conidia; pertaining to asexual spore production in fungi by successive budding of the distal spore in a spore chain.
[acro- + L. peto, to seek]
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