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    MACROGLIA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cellsplay

    Synonyms:

    astroglia; macroglia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("macroglia" 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 "macroglia"):

    astrocyte (comparatively large neuroglial cell)

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