multinucleated
adjective
biologyspecialized(alsomulti-nucleated)uk/ˌmʌl.tiˈnjuː.kli.eɪ.tɪd/us/ˌmʌl.tiˈnuː.kli.eɪ.t̬ɪd//ˌmʌl.taɪˈnuː.kli.eɪ.t̬ɪd/(of acell) having more than onenucleus(= thepartof acellthatcontrolsitsgrowth):
Thepresenceof multinucleatedcellsonday2 ofdevelopmentwascomparedbetween the twogroups.
Only a fewcelltypesin thehumanbodyare multi-nucleated.
Synonyms
multinuclear
multinucleate
- Musclefibresarelongcylindricalmultinucleatedcellsthatoriginatefrom thefusionof myoblasts duringembryonicdevelopment.
- Thevastmajorityof thezygoteswere multinucleated.
- Pathologicalstudiesofpatientswhodiedwithacutemeaslesfoundmultinucleatedgiantcellstypicalofmeaslesvirusinfectionthroughouttherespiratoryandgastrointestinaltracts.
Cells
- anaphase
- anti-platelet
- assort
- biotech
- bipolar
- erythrocyte
- germ cell
- haemoglobin
- histography
- homologous chromosomes
- infiltration
- intercellular
- intermitotic
- meiosis
- mitosis
- protoplasmic
- ribosomal
- ribosome
- sensory neuron
- sickle cell