Syncytium

Definition:

  • (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.
  • (n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.

Compare syncytium with other words:

coenocyte vs. syncytium

cytoplasm vs. syncytium