anaphase Biol.
(ˈænəfeɪz)
[a. G. anaphase (E. Strasburger 1884, in Arch. f. mikrosk. Anat. XXIII. 260), f. ana- + phase.]
The stage in cell division, between metaphase and telophase, during which the daughter chromosomes move apart towards the opposite poles.
| 1887 W. Hillhouse tr. E. Strasburger's Bot. xxxii. 363 The further phases of the separation of the sister-segments, which appertain to the receding phases of division, the anaphases. 1901 Calkins Protozoa 263 Late anaphase. 1946 Nature 17 Aug. 239/1 The birefringence disappears at fertilization and reappears during the anaphase of the first mitosis. |