Associations to the word «Mesosome»

Wiktionary

MESOSOME, noun. A folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.
MESOSOME, adjective. Average-bodied; neither broad nor narrow in proportion to height or length.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats