glia

Other forms of glia

plural

glias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glia

What does glia mean?

glia means "sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system".

How many syllables are in glia?

glia has 2 syllables and divides as gli-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for glia?

Close synonyms include neuroglia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glia a common word?

glia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.