myoballn.
/ˈmʌɪə(ʊ)ˌbɔːl/, U.S. /ˈmaɪoʊˌbɔl/, /ˈmaɪoʊˌbɑl/ Biology.
A spheroidal syncytium produced in tissue culture from myoblasts or muscle cells.
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syncytium1877
cœnocyte1900
myoball1976
1976 Y. Lass & G. D. Fischbach in Nature 9 Sept. 150/1 (caption) Over the next 2–3 d muscle precursor cells fused with one another in suspension to form multinucleated ‘myoballs’, 50–120 μm in diameter.
1980 Science 10 Oct. 205/3 Myoballs were grown from tissue-cultured muscle.
1993 Neuron 10 827/2 The neuromuscular contact was established by manipulating a myoball..into contact with the growth cone or the neurite.
2001 Gene Therapy 8 1372 Transduced myoballs..exhibited a greater than two-fold increase in K+ conductance by 20-30 h after infection.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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