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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 systemplay

    Synonyms:

    glia; neuroglia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    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)

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