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Webster 1913 Edition
Syncytium
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Syn-cy′ti-um
,Noun.
pl.
Syncitia
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. [NL., from Gr. [GREEK] together + [GREEK] a hollow vessel.]
1.
(Biol.)
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.
2.
(Zool.)
The ectoderm of a sponge.