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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Syncytium

· Syn·cy·ti·um · IPA /sɪnˈsɪʃiəm/
01 n. Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continu…
pl. Syncitia ((#))
  1. 1.
    Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.(Biol.)
  2. 2.
    The ectoderm of a sponge.(Zool.)