SYNCYTIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: syncytia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("syncytium" is a kind of...):

cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)

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