ground substance

Questions about ground substance

What does ground substance mean?

ground substance means "the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for ground substance?

Close synonyms include matrix, intercellular substance, hyaloplasm. 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 ground substance a common word?

ground substance 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.