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INTERSTITIAL TISSUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("interstitial tissue" is a kind of...):
animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)
plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interstitial tissue"):
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)
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