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Whats the word for cells with many nuclei?
A cells with many nuclei is often called a syncytium. The normal cell structure for many types of fungi is a syncytium.
What is a mass of interconnected cardiac muscle cells that act together as a group?
functional syncytium
What is a functional syncytium?
Cardiac muscle cells are mechanically, chemically, and electrically connected to one another, thus, the entire tissue resembles a single, enormous muscle cell. For this reason, cardiac muscle has been called a functional syncytium. This is also true of smooth muscle.
What does syncytia mean?
A syncytium or symplasm (/sɪnˈsaɪtiəm/; plural syncytia; from Greek: σύν (syn) = "together" + κύτος (kytos) = "box, i.e. cell") is a multinucleated cell that can result from multiple cell fusions of uninuclear cells
The band that occurs where two cardiac muscle cells join together?
The intercalated disc is the band that forms by the joining of two cardiac muscles. These muscles work together to form a syncytium.
Is the heart actually a true syncytium?
no
What word describe a multinucleated cell?
syncytium.
How does the cardiac muscle work as a functional syncytium?
cardiac muscle operates as a functional syncytium, although it's not a true syncytium, because each myocardial cell has its own nucleus within its own membrane. Cardiac muscle functions as a syncytium due to the presence of low resistance connections between adjacent cells, and when an action potential is generated, the atria or the ventricle contract together.
Whats the word for cells with many nuclei?
A cells with many nuclei is often called a syncytium. The normal cell structure for many types of fungi is a syncytium.
Do smooth or skeletal muscle form a functional syncytium?
visceral smooth muscles cells function together as ONE (functional syncytium) multiunit smooth muscle act independently.
How many functional syncytium are in heart?
Only one. The entire heart works together as a functional syncytium. It is generally referring to the electrical conduction and blood flow through the heart working together as one unit.
What is a mass of interconnected cardiac muscle cells that act together as a group?
functional syncytium
What is a functional syncytium?
Cardiac muscle cells are mechanically, chemically, and electrically connected to one another, thus, the entire tissue resembles a single, enormous muscle cell. For this reason, cardiac muscle has been called a functional syncytium. This is also true of smooth muscle.
Which component of the intercalated disc is a junction that provides the intercellular communication required for the myocardium to perform as a functional syncytium?
Gap junctions
What does the unique structure of cardiac muscle play in its function?
Cardiac muscle fibres contain GAP JUNCTION in the intercalated disc which makes them to function as a FUNCTIONAL SYNCYTIUM
The correct sequence in the conduction system of the heart is?
SA node, Internodal pathways, AV node, Bundle of His, Bundle branches, Purkinje fibers.
A mass of interconnected cardiac muscle cells that act as a unit constitutes a what?
a mass of merging cardiac cells that act as a unit is called functional syncytium. two of these are in the heart (atrial walls, and ventricular walls)
