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Definition: Glia |
GliaNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Glia are specialized cells of the nervous system whose main function is to "glue" neurons together. Specialized glia called Schwann cells secrete myelin sheaths around particularly long axons. Glia of the various types greatly outnumber the actual neurons.
Glia cells are also known as neuroglia. There are three main types of glia cells in the central nervous system: microglia, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes, each of which perform different functions. Glia cells are specialized to support and nourish the neurons and have many regulatory functions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glia."
Synonym: GliaSynonym: neuroglia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glia |
| Specialty definitions using "glia": Glia Maturation Factor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glia" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (glia). |
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Health | Some examples of glia are oligodendroglia, astrocytes, and microglia. (references) | |
Glia make up the blood-brain barrier between blood vessels and the substance of the brain. (references) | ||
Other types of brain cells are generally called glia (from the Greek word meaning "glue"). (references) | ||
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| "Glia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glia" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "glia": Glia Maturation Factor. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "glia": Neuron-Glia. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glia | 21 |
cell glia | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "glia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | gliavæv, glia, neuroglia. (various references) | |
Dutch | glia, zenuwlijm, zenuwkleefstof, neuroglia. (various references) | |
French | névroglie. (various references) | |
German | Gliagewebe, Glia, Neuroglia. (various references) | |
Greek | νευρογλοία. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iaglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glia, nevróglia. (various references) | |
Spanish | glía, neuroglía. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glia": gliadin, gliadine, gliadines, gliadins, glial, glias. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glia": ganglia, neuroglia, oligodendroglia, passacaglia. (additional references) | |
Words containing "glia": ganglial, gangliar, neuroglial, neuroglias, oligodendroglial, oligodendroglias, passacaglias, tagliatelle, tagliatelles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l" | |
-1 letter: ail, gal, lag. | |
-2 letters: ag, ai, al, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l" | |
+1 letter: agile, algid, algin, align, argil, gaily, glair, glial, glias, grail, laigh, liang, ligan, linga, logia. | |
+2 letters: agnail, aiglet, ailing, algins, algoid, alight, aligns, argali, argils, baling, cagily, dialog, gainly, galiot, gallic, gamily, garlic, gaslit, gavial, gelati, genial, gimbal, gimmal, gingal, glacis, glaire, glairs, glairy, glaive, glioma, gloria, goalie, grails, haling, jingal, lacing, lading, laighs, laking, laming, lasing, latigo, laving, lawing, laying, lazing, liangs, ligand, ligans, ligase, ligate, ligula, linage, lingam, lingas, lingua, loggia, magilp, malign, milage, nilgai, nilgau, ogival, paling, signal, silage, vagile, waling. | |
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