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syncytium |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Syncytium \Syn*cy"ti*um\, n.; pl {Syncitia}. [NL., from Gr ? together + ? 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. (Zo["o]l.) The ectoderm of a sponge. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: syncytium n : a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)
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