English dictionary
syncytium
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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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.
Source: webster1913