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presyncytial

presyncytial adjective: prior to the formation of a syncytium.

Adjective

presyncytial (not comparable)

  1. Prior to the formation of a syncytium
    • To test if Gw proteins respond to puromycin, we injected Drosophila embryos expressing Gw:EGFP either at the presyncytial blastoderm stage (when no GW-bodies are present) or at cellularization and observed GW-body dynamics over a twenty-minute time course.2016 March 2, “GW-Bodies and P-Bodies Constitute Two Separate Pools of Sequestered Non-Translating RNAs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of presyncytial

From pre- + syncytial.

Questions about presyncytial

What does presyncytial mean?
Presyncytial means prior to the formation of a syncytium.
What part of speech is presyncytial?
Presyncytial is an adjective.

Words near presyncytial in the dictionary

  1. presynchronizations
  2. presynchronized
  3. presyncopal
  4. presyncope
  5. presyncopes
  6. presyncytial
  7. presynthesised
  8. presynthesized
  9. presynthetic
  10. presystematic
  11. presystematically

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