NEUROPIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuropil mean? 

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

1. the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROPIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

neuropil; neuropile

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

nerve tissue; nervous tissue (tissue composed of neurons)

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

gray matter; gray substance; grey matter; grey substance; substantia grisea (greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons)