multinucleated love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as multinucleate.

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  • adjective Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate

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Examples

  • Immune cells within the brain go into overdrive, churning out substances that attract more immune cells, and white blood cells from the body flood in and join the fray, all clumping together to form destructive entities known as multinucleated giant cells.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2008

  • But it's refreshing to see that right now LA has a gloriously expansive new magazine whose existence has nothing to do with distant ownership, multinucleated management, dotted-line org-charts, focus groups, sticky eyeballs or five-year budget projections.

    Michael Sigman: Can Slake Quench LA's Media Thirst? 2010

  • Giant cells (myeloplaxes, osteoclasts), large, multinucleated, protoplasmic masses, are also to be found in both sorts of adult marrow, but more particularly in red marrow.

    II. Osteology. 2. Bone 1918

  • Pathological changes in affected arteries include the presence of multinucleated giant cells,

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows yassermetwally 2010

  • Figure 2, we can identify myotubes (multinucleated cells) positive for GFP and MF20, indicating that GFP melanoma cells have fused with the differentiating myogenic cells.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ara Parlakian et al. 2010

  • Drosophila body wall muscles are multinucleated syncytia formed by successive fusions between a founder myoblast and several fusion competent myoblasts.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sarada Bulchand et al. 2010

  • Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Drosophila body wall muscles are multinucleated syncytia formed by successive fusions between a founder myoblast and several fusion competent myoblasts.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sarada Bulchand et al. 2010

  • Fibroblasts cells expressing high amounts of NEFH were strongly misshapen, multinucleated, and had many inclusions, typical changes seen in neuropathies

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Myoung Sook Kim et al. 2010

  • Skeletal muscle fibers are cylindrical, multinucleated, striated, and under voluntary control.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Skeletal muscle fibers are cylindrical, multinucleated, striated, and under voluntary control.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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