Crossword-Solution: GLIAL
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GLIAL | anagram | GALLI |
We have 1 clue for the answer “GLIAL”
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| Pertaining to neuroglia. | 1 answer |
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Walk furtively (up to someone)
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
LSDEI
Hint 3 another clue
Move
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Sentences with GLIAL (4)
Physiologically, when brain cells are activated by the memory process, the nerve cell coating, known as the glial sheath, increases in thickness and becomes thicker and thicker with each repetition, strengthening the electrical pathway in brain that constitutes memory.
Additional associations not only form more axon-dendrite connections, but also cause an increase in the surrounding glial sheath of the brain cell.
They contend that all the phenomena can be more simply explained without postulating the movement required for the Duval Theory or the glial activity of Ramon y Cajal's hypothesis.
Obviously this {124} theory can be elaborated and applied parallel with the neuroglia theory except that here we are substituting synapse resistance for the hypothetical, undemonstrated action of the glial cells.
Quotes with GLIAL (1)
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1943).