 The term "mitosis", coined by Walther Flemming in 1882, is derived from the Greek word μίτος ("mitos", "warp thread").There are some alternative names for the process, e.g., "karyokinesis" (nuclear division), a term introduced by Schleicher in 1878, or "equational division", proposed by August Weismann in 1887.However, the term "mitosis" is also used in a broad sense by some authors to refer to karyokinesis and cytokinesis together.