syncytium

NOUN
  1. a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)
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How To Use syncytium In A Sentence

  • The maze experiments used the plasmodium phase of the mould, a multi-nucleate single cell, or syncytium.
  • They favored a myoepithelial origin, hypothesizing that the myoepithelial cells enlarge and merge together to form a syncytium.
  • (A) Maximal projection of a Texas Red-labelled astrocyte syncytium after patching a single astrocyte with a Texas Red-containing pipette in an EC slice. PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • The cells of the trophoblast become differentiated into two strata: an outer, termed the syncytium or syncytiotrophoblast, so named because it consists of a layer of protoplasm studded with nuclei, but showing no evidence of subdivision into cells; and an inner layer, the cytotrophoblast or layer of Langhans, in which the cell outlines are defined. I. Embryology. 5. Segmentation of the Fertilized Ovum
  • Top, bar graph reporting the mean size of the labelled astrocyte syncytium ( PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Upon muscle injury, these cells undergo mitosis, proliferate, form syncytium and ultimately form new skeletal myocytes.
  • The muscle cells act as a syncytium, in which spontaneous depolarising pacemaker potentials occur. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • This syncytium consists at first of dense protoplasm with closely packed nuclei, but later it opens out and forms a looser meshwork with the cellular strands arranged in a radiating manner from the central canal. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
  • The morphological and physiological change of syncytium is considered to be the result of soybean gene expression induced by SCN directly.
  • The fibers are made up of distinct quadrangular cells, joined end to end so as to form a syncytium (Fig. 499). V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart
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