||Syn*cy"ti*um (?), n.; pl. Syncitia (#). [NL., from Gr. &?; together + &?; a hollow vessel.] 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. (Zoöl.) The ectoderm of a sponge.

||Syn*cy"ti*um (?), n.; pl. Syncitia (#). [NL., from Gr. &?; together + &?; a hollow vessel.] 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. (Zoöl.) The ectoderm of a sponge.