Definition of Coenocyte
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Coenocyte
1.
Organism that is not subdivided into cells but has many nuclei within a mass of cytoplasm (a syncytium), as for example some fungi and algae and the acellular slime mould Physarum.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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