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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Syn·cy·ti·um 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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