A self-propagating cytoplasmic body usually present in animal cells and those of some lower plants, but not present in flowering plants, consisting of a centriole and sometimes a centrosphere or astral rays, located at each pole of the spindle during the process of nuclear division (mitosis).
The structure in the cytoplasm of a cell, near the nucleus, and containing the centrioles.
An area of clear cytoplasm, found next to the nucleus in nondividing cells, that contains the centrioles.
An area of clear cytoplasm seen in dividing cells around the poles of the spindle.
A region of the cytoplasm of a cell usually lying near the nucleus, containing in its center one or two centrioles, the diplosomes.