OLIGODENDROGLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oligodendroglia mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIGODENDROGLIA (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 ("oligodendroglia" 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 "oligodendroglia"):

oligodendrocyte (a cell of the oligodendroglia)

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

medullary sheath; myelin sheath (a layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers)

 Context examples 

It is composed predominantly of cells which morphologically resemble oligodendroglia.

(Oligodendroglioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

A neoplasm of the central nervous system composed predominantly of cells morphologically resembling oligodendroglia.

(Oligodendroglial tumor, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Oligodendroglia may be called interfascicular, perivascular, or perineuronal satellite cells according to their location.

(Murine Oligodendroglia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)