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syncytium

Noun

syn=cyt=i=um

WORDNET DICTIONARY

syncytium(n = noun.body) - a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers);

syncytium, n. [NL., from Gr. together + a hollow vessel.].

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. [1913 Webster]
The ectoderm of a sponge. [1913 Webster]

syncytium, n. (pl. syncytia) Biol. a mass of cytoplasm with several nuclei, not divided into separate cells.

Derivative

syncytial adj.

Etymology

formed as SYN- + -CYTE + -IUM