microglia (redirected from microglial)

mi·cro·gli·a  (mkr-gl, -gl-)

n.

(used with a pl. verb) Any of the small neuroglial cells of the central nervous system having long processes and amoeboid and phagocytic activity at sites of neural damage or inflammation.

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microglia - neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic glia, neuroglia - 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 microgliacyte - a cell of the microglia that may become phagocytic and collect waste products of nerve tissue