View 3 Hour Detailed Portland Weather Forecast for Today. Portland 4 â 7 Day Weather Forecast Summary: Heavy rain (total 37mm), heaviest during Mon afternoon. Warm (max 24Â°C on Mon afternoon, min 14Â°C on Tue night). Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the SSE on Sun night, light winds from the N by Mon afternoon).
noun, plural: spindles. (1) A collection of minute fibers composed of microtubules, which are prominent during cell division, as mitotic spindle or mitotic apparatus''. (2) A specialized innervated muscle structure involved in the reflex action and in proprioception, as muscle spindle. (3) A species of a poisonous shrub or small tree of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making spindles used for spinning wool. (4) An EEG waveform that occurs during sleep, as sleep spindle.
Spindle Fibers. spindle fibers A collection of microtubules attached to a centromere during mitosis and meiosis that are responsible for the movement of the chromosomes to opposite poles. Spindle fibers align the chromosomes along the middle of the cell nucleus. This line is referred to as the metaphase plate. This organ ization helps to ensure that in the next phase, when the chromosomes are separated, each new nucleus will receive one copy of each chromosome.