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GLIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
glia; neuroglia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("glia" is a kind of...):
interstitial tissue (tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal)
Meronyms (parts of "glia"):
glial cell; neurogliacyte; neuroglial cell (a cell of the neuroglia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glia"):
astroglia; macroglia (tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells)
microglia (neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic)
oligodendria; oligodendroglia (tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers)
Holonyms ("glia" is a part of...):
central nervous system; CNS; systema nervosum centrale (the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord)
Holonyms ("glia" is a substance of...):
glioma (a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia)
Derivation:
glial (of or relating to neuroglia)
