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syncitium

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | 206 words | Copyright

syncitium A cell or organism that has many nuclei which are not separated by cell membranes. This condition is caused by the repeated division of the nucleus, but not of the cytoplasm, of the original cell.

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