glial cell

Questions about glial cell

What does glial cell mean?

glial cell means "a cell of the neuroglia".

What is another word for glial cell?

Close synonyms include neurogliacyte, neuroglial cell. 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 glial cell a common word?

glial cell 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.