||Syn"cri*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a comparison; &?; together +
||&?; to judge.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which opposite things or
||persons are compared. Crabb.
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||Syn*cy"ti*um (?), n.; 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.