Taber's Medical Dictionary
Barr body
(băr)
[Murray L. Barr, Canadian anatomist, 1908-1995]
Sex chromatin mass seen within the nuclei of normal female somatic cells. According to the Lyon hypothesis, one of the two X chromosomes in each somatic cell of the female is genetically inactivated. The Barr body represents the inactivated X chromosome.
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