HyperDic: astrocyte

English > 1 sense of the word astrocyte:
NOUNbodyastrocytecomparatively large neuroglial cell
English > astrocyte: 1 sense > noun 1, body
Meaningcomparatively large neuroglial cell.
Part ofastroglia, macrogliatissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells
Narrowerfibrous astrocytestar-shaped cells with long processes
protoplasmic astrocyteA kind of astrocyte found in the grey matter
Broaderneurogliacyte, neuroglial cell, glial cellA cell of the neuroglia
Spanishastrocito
Catalanastròcit
Adjectivesastrocyticof or relating to or containing large star-shaped cells in the neuroglia

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