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syncitium

syncitium is the misspelling of syncytium.

Meaning of syncytium

Noun

syncytium (plural syncytia)

  1. A mass of cytoplasm containing many nuclei; a multinucleate cell resulting from cell fusions of mononuclear cells (for example, the cells that make up animal skeletal muscle).
    • These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia.2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    coenocyte

Forms of syncitium

pluralsyncitia

Questions about syncitium

What is syncitium the misspelling of?
Syncitium is the misspelling of syncytium.

Words near syncitium in the dictionary

  1. syncing up
  2. synciput
  3. syncitia
  4. syncitial
  5. syncitin
  6. syncitium
  7. synclastic
  8. synclinal
  9. synclinally
  10. synclinals
  11. syncline

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