glialadj.
/ˈɡlʌɪəl/, /ˈɡliːəl/, U.S. /ˈɡliəl/, /ˈɡlaɪəl/ Of or pertaining to glia.
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1888 B. Bramwell Intracranial Tumours ix. 224 The tumour is found to be composed of small round or oval cells, and of extremely delicate fibres (glial threads).
1908 Practitioner Oct. 562 By a new staining method, which stains the neuro-fibril networks but leaves the glia totally unstained, [they] have demonstrated..that the Golgi pericellular nets are glial and not nervous in origin.
1910 T. C. Allbutt & H. D. Rolleston Syst. Med. (ed. 2) VII. 856 The normal glial structure of the spinal cord.
1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxiii. 321 These sheaths are separated by glial tissue and a neurilemma is absent.
1966 New Statesman 9 Sept. 349/1 The so-called glial cells, for example, which greatly outnumber the nerve cells, turn out to be more than the mere padding they were thought to be.
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