INTERSTITIAL TISSUE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("interstitial tissue" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interstitial tissue"):

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)

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