transiently misoriented mitotic spindle transiently misoriented mitotic spindle during vegetative growth transient mitotic spindle misorientation 2015-07-27T12:29:27Z transiently misoriented spindle during mitotic cell cycle A physical cellular phenotype observed in the vegetative growth phase of the life cycle in which the mitotic spindle is assembled in an incorrect orientation. Spindle orientation is later corrected so that the spindle is parallel to the long axis of the cell. FYPO:0004723 transient abnormal mitotic spindle orientation In wild-type cells, the spindle is initially misoriented in a small number of cells (typically around 8% of a cell population). Use this term if the frequency of spindle misorientation is increased above the wild-type occurrence. midori misoriented mitotic spindle