Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun syncytium

1 sense of syncytium

Sense 1
syncytium -- (a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers))
       => cytoplasm, cytol -- (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)