glia Phys.
(ˈglaɪə)
[a. Gr. γλία glue.]
= neuroglia; freq. attrib., as glia-tissue; glia cell, any of the different kinds of cell in neuroglia.
| 1886 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. I. iii. 107 Fine fibres..form a network. At their intersections are peculiar cells consisting of a nucleus and small cell body (‘glia-cells’, ‘cells of Deiters’). 1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict. I. 586/1 Glia, neuroglia. G.-cells,..small flattened cells found in the spinal cord. 1891 Quain's Anat. (ed. 10) I. ii. 323 The neuroglia is, in fact, composed of greatly ramified cells (glia-cells). 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 172 Investigations of Weigert..seem to establish that new formations of glia may be either cellular or fibrous in structure. Ibid. 171 A subsequent proliferation of the embryonal epiblastic elements, or a thickening of the normal glia tissue. 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. 1964 J. Z. Young Model of Brain iv. 60 Glia cells are said to show electrical phenomena when suitably stimulated. 1964 Jrnl. Neurophysiol. XXVII. 291 No special mechanism providing for electrical interaction between neurons and glia could be detected. |