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OLIGODENDROGLIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers

Synonyms:

oligodendria; oligodendroglia

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("oligodendroglia" 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 "oligodendroglia"):

oligodendrocyte (a cell of the oligodendroglia)

Holonyms ("oligodendroglia" is a part of...):

medullary sheath; myelin sheath (a layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers)

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