ASTROGLIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells

Synonyms:

astroglia; macroglia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("astroglia" is a kind of...):

glia; neuroglia (sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system)

Meronyms (parts of "astroglia"):

astrocyte (comparatively large neuroglial cell)

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