cis

adjective

1. (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.

2. (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.

3. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.

- the cis effect is the labilization of ligands which are cis to certain other ligands

noun

1. an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

Definition categories: group