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.
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2. (Zool.) The ectoderm of a sponge.
[1913 Webster] Syndactyl