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Syncytium   Listen
noun
Syncytium  n.  (pl. syncitia)  
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.
2.
(Zool.) The ectoderm of a sponge.





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Words linked to "Syncytium" :   cytoplasm, cytol


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