Usually means: Condensed, transcriptionally inactive chromosomal regions.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterochromatin: Merriam-Webster
  2. heterochromatin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heterochromatin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heterochromatin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heterochromatin: Wordnik
  6. heterochromatin: Wiktionary
  7. heterochromatin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. heterochromatin: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. heterochromatin: Dictionary.com
  10. Heterochromatin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. heterochromatin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heterochromatin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterochromatin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heterochromatin: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. heterochromatin: Medical dictionary
  8. Heterochromatin: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heterochromatin)

noun:  (cytology) Heterochromatic tightly coiled chromosome material; believed to be genetically inactive

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