NEUROGLIACYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurogliacyte mean? 

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

1. a cell of the neuroglia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROGLIACYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell of the neuroglia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

glial cell; neurogliacyte; neuroglial cell

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

somatic cell; vegetative cell (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes)

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

astrocyte (comparatively large neuroglial cell)

microgliacyte (a cell of the microglia that may become phagocytic and collect waste products of nerve tissue)

oligodendrocyte (a cell of the oligodendroglia)

Holonyms ("neurogliacyte" is a part 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)