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syncytium

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Noun
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syn=cyt=i=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

syncytiumn. [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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