Crossword-Solution: NEUROGLIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Neuroglia | n. | The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “NEUROGLIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BRAIN tumors/tumours (most), cell formation of | 1 answer |
| GLIAL cells | 1 answer |
| NERVE glue | 1 answer |
| glia | 2 answers |
| ASTROCYTES | 2 answers |
| CENTRAL nervous system, functional tissue of the | 2 answers |
| CENTRAL nervous system, non-neuronal tissue of the | 2 answers |
| CENTRAL nervous system, supportive tissue of the | 2 answers |
| NONNEURONAL tissue of central nervous system | 2 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with NEUROGLIA (5)
Even in the gray matter, though sometimes thickly distributed, the ganglion cells are never in actual contact one with another; they always lie embedded in intercellular tissues, which came to be known, following Virchow, as the neuroglia.
Ramon y Cajal, on the other hand, believes that the neuroglia cells are contractile, and may expand so as to interpose their branches as insulating material between the synapses formed by the dendrites of the nerve cells.
Structural elements of the nervous system: The neurone--Neurone fibers--Neuroglia--Complexity of the brain--"Gray" and "white" matter.
The "white matter" of the central system consists chiefly of axons with their enveloping or medullary, sheath and neuroglia.
The primary elements in the tissue of the nervous system are three; nerve fibres, which are simply conducting threads, telegraph wires; ganglion cells, which are the officials of the system; and neuroglia, a fine variety of connective tissue which holds these other elements together, and may also possibly exercise a function in affecting impressions.