Syncytium Definition

sĭn-sĭshē-əm
syncytia
noun
A mass of protoplasm containing scattered nuclei that are not separated into distinct cells, as in striated muscle fibers.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Syncytium

Noun

Singular:
syncytium
Plural:
syncytia

Origin of Syncytium

  • From Ancient Greek σύν (sun, “with") + κύτος (kutos, “vessel, cell")

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin syn– cyt(o)– –ium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Syncytium Sentence Examples

  • From such beginnings the evolution of the Turbellaria leads first through the Acoelous forms in which the central syncytium is partly differentiated into digestive, muscular and skeletotrophic tissue, then to the more specialized Rhabdocoela, and so through the Alloeocoela to the Triclads and finally to the Polyclads.

  • Externally is a thin cuticle; this covers the epidermis, which consists of a syncytium with no cell limits.

  • Inside the syncytium is a not very regular layer of circular muscle fibres, and within this again some rather scattered longitudinal fibres; there is no endothelium.

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Words Starting With

SSYSYN

Words Ending With

MUMIUM

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Words Starting With S and Ending With M

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