FIBROUS ASTROCYTE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Star-shaped cells with long processes; found in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("fibrous astrocyte" is a kind of...):

astrocyte (comparatively large neuroglial cell)

Holonyms ("fibrous astrocyte" is a part of...):

substantia alba; white matter (whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths)

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