What is the meaning of Syncytium?

  • (n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.
  • (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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