Bible Dictionaries
Syncytium

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(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.

(2):

(n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Syncytium'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/syncytium.html. 1828.