NEUROGLIA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuroglia mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROGLIA (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

glia; neuroglia

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

interstitial tissue (tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal)

Meronyms (parts of "neuroglia"):

glial cell; neurogliacyte; neuroglial cell (a cell of the neuroglia)

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

astroglia; macroglia (tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells)

microglia (neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic)

oligodendria; oligodendroglia (tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers)

Holonyms ("neuroglia" is a part of...):

central nervous system; CNS; systema nervosum centrale (the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord)

Holonyms ("neuroglia" is a substance of...):

glioma (a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia)