syncitial

Adjective

syncytial (comparative more syncytial, superlative most syncytial)

1. Of or pertaining to a syncytium.
   • The epithelium, however, in many regions has a more syncytial appearance due to loss of cell boundaries.1906, Robert T. Frank, “Chorionepitheliomatous Proliferation in Teratomata”, in George H. Simmons, editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 46, American Medical Association, page...
2. Characterized by interdependence and a sense of mutual identity.
   • The natural death of a single member is perceived as a collective catastrophe; a maiming would is inflected on the body of all members of the group who are not willing to be separated from him, but fear being dragged to death with him. The syncytial group both denies and works through death in...2012, Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg, Politics and Psychology: Contemporary Psychodynamic Perspectives