syn crisis (sing kris is)

[LL., The ectoderm [of a calcareous sponge) is a transparent, slightly granular, gelatinous ma in which the nuclei are scattered, but which, in the unaltered state, shows no trace of the primitive distinctne of the cells which contain these nuclei, and is therefore termed by Haeckel a syncytium. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 103. syndicate