Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having two or more nuclei.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many or several nuclei, as a cell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Multinuclear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology having more than one
nucleus ;multinuclear
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having two or more nuclei
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Examples
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Activates and increases the formation of osteoclasts (multinucleate cells that break down calcified bone matrix), increasing bone destruction and making calcium and phosphorous available to the rest of the body.
Anatomy 101: The Parathyroid Gland And How It Affects Our Health. 2007
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Reproduction occurs by division, by budding or by fragmentation, but the parts are invariably multinucleate.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Muscle tissue is composed of multinucleate myofibers surrounded by a basal lamina (extra-cellular matrix), which delineate the fibers from the interstitium consisting of vessels and connective tissue
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ara Parlakian et al. 2010
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These cells remain as mononucleate cells with clustered centromeres and no Zip1 staining, and represent an ever-growing proportion of the mononucleate cell population as cells that have entered the meiotic program become multinucleate.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Obeso et al. 2010
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These cells remain as mononucleate cells with clustered centromeres and no Zip1 staining, and represent an ever-growing proportion of the mononucleate cell population as cells that have entered the meiotic program become multinucleate.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Obeso et al. 2010
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Typical multinucleate giant cells were found around the granulomas in mice without DC transfer.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Xiaoling Gao et al. 2010
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The zygote's nucleus divides, but no cell walls form, resulting in a single-celled, multinucleate plasmodium that grow as the organism feeds and the nuclei continue to divide
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The zygote's nucleus divides, but no cell walls form, resulting in a single-celled, multinucleate plasmodium that grows as the organism feeds and the nuclei continue to divide
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The zygote's nucleus divides, but no cell walls form, resulting in a single-celled, multinucleate plasmodium that grow as the organism feeds and the nuclei continue to divide
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The zygote's nucleus divides, but no cell walls form, resulting in a single-celled, multinucleate plasmodium that grow as the organism feeds and the nuclei continue to divide
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