Taber's Medical Dictionary
Caenorhabditis elegans
(sē″nō-rab′dīt′ĭs el′ĕ-ganz″)
(el′ĕ-gans″)
A roundworm, about 1 mm long. It is the first multicellular organism for which the full genome was sequenced. Its cells are used in studies of the molecular basis of development, aging, and fat metabolism.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Caenorhabditis Elegans." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734357/all/Caenorhabditis_elegans.
Caenorhabditis elegans. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734357/all/Caenorhabditis_elegans. Accessed September 22, 2023.
Caenorhabditis elegans. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734357/all/Caenorhabditis_elegans
Caenorhabditis Elegans [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 September 22]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734357/all/Caenorhabditis_elegans.
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