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ASTROGLIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells
Synonyms:
astroglia; macroglia
Classified under:
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)
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