dictyosome

Term: dictyosome

Origin: Anc Greek

δίκτυον/dictyon(=net)

+σώμα/soma(body) > σύμα/sima(=corpse). Homer (9th cen) reffered to word "σώμα" with the meaning of the corpse.

Coined

In 1910 by A Perroncito to denote the pieces into which the Golgi apparatus was divided during mitosis.

(Perroncito, A, Contribution a l’etude de la biologie cellulaire. Mitochondres, chromidies et appareil reticulaire interne dans les cellules spermatiques. Le phenomene de la dictyokinese. Arch Ital de Biol., Bd. 54 (1910).   

Definition:

1. organelle found in plant cells with a cup-shaped array of flattened membranous vesicles and functionally equivalent to the golgi apparatus of animal cells.

2.  net-like structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells. Several dictyosomes together consist the Golgi apparatus.