multinucleated
adjective biology specialized (also multi-nucleated) uk/ˌmʌl.tiˈnjuː.kli.eɪ.tɪd/ us/ˌmʌl.tiˈnuː.kli.eɪ.t̬ɪd/ /ˌmʌl.taɪˈnuː.kli.eɪ.t̬ɪd/
（细胞）多核的
(of a cell) having more than one nucleus (= the part of a cell that controls its growth)
The presence of multinucleated cells on day 2 of development was compared between the two groups.
Only a few cell types in the human body are multi-nucleated. 人体中只有少数细胞类型是多核的。
Synonyms: multinuclearmultinucleate
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- Muscle fibres are long cylindrical multinucleated cells that originate from the fusion of myoblasts during embryonic development.
- The vast majority of the zygotes were multinucleated.
- Pathological studies of patients who died with acute measles found multinucleated giant cells typical of measles virus infection throughout the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts.