Category:GO:0000768 ! syncytium formation by plasma membrane fusion

id: GO:0000768

name: syncytium formation by plasma membrane fusion
namespace: biological_process
def: "The formation of a syncytium, a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei enclosed within a single plasma membrane, by the fusion of the plasma membranes of two or more individual cells." [GOC:mtg_muscle, GOC:tb]
synonym: "cell fusion" BROAD []
is_a: GO:0006949 ! syncytium formation
is_a: GO:0140253 ! cell-cell fusion
intersection_of: GO:0006949 ! syncytium formation
intersection_of: has_part GO:0045026 ! plasma membrane fusion

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0000768</GOterm>
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