From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Syncytium \Syn*cy"ti*um\, noun; 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. (Zo["o]l.) The ectoderm of a sponge.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers) [also: {syncytia} (pl)]
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