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OLIGODENDRIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers
Synonyms:
oligodendria; oligodendroglia
Classified under:
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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