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OLIGODENDRIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oligodendria mean? 

OLIGODENDRIA (noun)
  The noun OLIGODENDRIA has 1 sense:

1. tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


OLIGODENDRIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

oligodendria; oligodendroglia

Hypernyms ("oligodendria" 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 "oligodendria"):

oligodendrocyte (a cell of the oligodendroglia)

Holonyms ("oligodendria" 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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