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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 syn·cy·tium /sɪnˈsɪʃ(i)əm/

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 syn·cy·tium /sɪnˈsɪʃ(ɪ)əm/ 名詞
 合胞體,合體細胞,邊緣合胞體

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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 syncytium
      n : a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed
          in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in
          muscle fibers)
      [also: syncytia (pl)]