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syncytium
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syncytium
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun syncytium has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
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]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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
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