ASTROGLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astroglia mean? 

• ASTROGLIA (noun)
  The noun ASTROGLIA has 1 sense:

1. tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells

  Familiarity information: ASTROGLIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTROGLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

astroglia; macroglia

Hypernyms ("astroglia" 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 "astroglia"):

astrocyte (comparatively large neuroglial cell)