'Syncytium' definitions:
Definition of 'syncytium'
(from WordNet)
noun
A mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)
Definition of 'Syncytium'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) The ectoderm of a sponge. [1913 Webster] Syndactyl