NERVE TISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nerve tissue mean? 

• NERVE TISSUE (noun)
  The noun NERVE TISSUE has 1 sense:

1. tissue composed of neurons

  Familiarity information: NERVE TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVE TISSUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tissue composed of neurons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

nerve tissue; nervous tissue

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

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

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

fascicle; fasciculus; fiber bundle; fibre bundle (a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers))

neuropil; neuropile (the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded)

gray matter; gray substance; grey matter; grey substance; substantia grisea (greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons)

substantia alba; white matter (whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths)

Holonyms ("nerve tissue" is a part of...):

nervous system; systema nervosum (the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells)

 Context examples 

Neoplasms which arise from peripheral nerve tissue.

(Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An intraneural or extraneural neoplasm arising from nerve tissues and neural sheaths, composed of perineurial-like fibroblasts and Schwann cells.

(Neurofibroma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An intraneural or extraneural neoplasm arising from nerve tissues and neural sheaths.

(Neurofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuroblastoma is a cancer that forms in your nerve tissue.

(Neuroblastoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

The organized network of nerve tissue in the body.

(Nervous system, NCI Dictionary)

The retina is the layer of nerve tissue inside the eye that senses light and sends images along the optic nerve to the brain.

(Glaucoma, NCI Dictionary)

Nerve tissue protein that shows similarity to GTPase activating protein.

(Neurofibromin, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

LPL treatment has been noted to promote regeneration in cardiac, lung, and nerve tissues.

(Laser Therapy Prompts Regeneration in Teeth, NIH)

Mice treated with glutamine also had high numbers of virus-specific T cells in infected nerve tissues.

(Glutamine suppresses herpes in mice and guinea pigs, National Institutes of Health)

This term is usually used to describe the ability of viruses to infect nerve tissue.

(Neurotropism, NCI Dictionary)