syncytium

noun

Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύν (sún, “with”) + κύτος (kútos, “vessel, cell”).

1. A mass of cytoplasm containing many nuclei; a multinucleate cell resulting from cell fusions of mononuclear cells (for example, the cells that make up animal skeletal muscle).

   “These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia.”