| 释义 |
astrocyte Anat.|ˈæstrəʊsaɪt|
[f. astro- + -cyte.]
a. A star-shaped cell of the neuroglia tissue in the central nervous system.
b. A star-shaped bone corpuscle (1893 in Funk's Stand. Dict.).
1898E. L. Billstein tr. P. Stöhr's Text-Bk. Histology (ed. 2) v. 170 The neuroglia principally consists of nucleated elements, the glia-cells... There are two kinds of glia-cells, ependymal cells and astrocytes. 1934E. A. Sharpey-Schafer Histology (ed. 13) xviii. 191 Protoplasmic cells..radiating processes spring from the cytoplasm; hence the names astrocyte and spider-cell, by which these neuroglia-cells are also known. 1945W. E. Le Gros Clark Tissues of Body (ed. 2) xiii. 367 Scattered throughout the grey and white matter of the central nervous system are stellate cells... They are divided into two categories, protoplasmic astrocytes..and fibrous astrocytes. |