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syncytium - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'syncytium' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Syncytium [ n.]
- 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.
- The ectoderm of a sponge.