Merit

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 28

(mer' -it). In biology, one of the small bodies or granules containing one or two chromatin-specks, or micro somata, formed by the breaking up of the male and female pronuclei in the proce of impregnation. The Sperm a to meri ten and Ovomeriten of Boehm. Cf. Idant .