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