binucleate

Thân thiện

A single-celled organism appears binucleate under the microscope.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having two nuclei: Describes a cell or structure that contains exactly two distinct nuclei.

Usage

• This term is primarily used in biological and medical contexts to describe cellular morphology.
• It functions as a descriptive adjective, typically placed before a noun or after a linking verb.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The pathologist observed a binucleate cell in the tissue sample.
  • Certain types of liver cells, known as hepatocytes, can become binucleate.
  • A binucleate condition is sometimes seen in abnormal cell division.

Advanced Usage

• Technical Context: In cell biology, "binucleate" is a precise descriptor for the result of specific processes like cytokinesis failure or cell fusion.
  • The experiment induced cytokinesis failure, resulting in a population of binucleate cells.

Variants and Related Words

• Binucleated (adj): An alternative form with the same meaning as "binucleate."
  • The report noted the presence of binucleated lymphocytes.
• Multinucleate (adj): Having multiple (more than two) nuclei.
• Uninucleate (adj): Having a single nucleus.

Synonyms

• Binuclear (adj): Having two nuclei. (Note: This is a direct synonym, though "binucleate" is more common in cytology.)
• Dikaryotic (adj): In mycology, specifically refers to a cell containing two genetically distinct nuclei. (Context-specific synonym)

Antonyms

• Uninucleate (adj): Having one nucleus.
• Anucleate (adj): Lacking a nucleus.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having two nuclei

Từ đồng nghĩa

• binuclear
• binucleated