syncytiotrophoblastic cell

syncytiotrophoblastic cell
a type of large, multinucleate cell resembling a syncytiotrophoblast, having hyperchromatic nuclei and abundant eosinophilic, sometimes vacuolated, cytoplasm; one of the cell types that compose a choriocarcinoma. Cf. cytotrophoblastic c.

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