NEUROGLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuroglia mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROGLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

glia; neuroglia

Hypernyms ("neuroglia" is a kind of...):

interstitial tissue (tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal)

Meronyms (parts of "neuroglia"):

glial cell; neurogliacyte; neuroglial cell (a cell of the neuroglia)

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

astroglia; macroglia (tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells)

microglia (neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic)

oligodendria; oligodendroglia (tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers)

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

central nervous system; CNS; systema nervosum centrale (the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord)

Holonyms ("neuroglia" is a substance of...):

glioma (a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia)

Derivation:

neuroglial (relating to or consisting of neuroglia)

 Context examples 

An excess of neuroglia in damaged areas of the central nervous system.

(Gliosis, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

It has long branching processes and resembles neuroglia.

(Pituicyte, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuroglia have high-affinity transmitter uptake systems, voltage-dependent and transmitter-gated ion channels, and can release transmitters, but their role in signaling (as in many other functions) is unclear.

(Glial cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The types of neuroglia include oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, microglia, and ependymal cells.

(Neuroglia, NCI Dictionary)

The production of a dense fibrous network of neuroglia; includes astrocytosis, which is a proliferation of astrocytes in the area of a degenerative lesion.

(Gliosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Also called neuroglia.

(Glial cell, NCI Dictionary)