Usually means: Supportive cells in nervous system.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word glial:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. glial: Merriam-Webster
  2. glial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glial: Collins English Dictionary
  4. glial: Wordnik
  5. glial: Wiktionary
  6. glial: Dictionary.com
  7. Glial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. glial: Rhymezone
  9. glial: FreeDictionary.org
  10. glial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. glial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. glial: Vocabulary.com
  13. Glial: Wordnik

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. glial: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. glial: Medical dictionary

(Note: See glia as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glial)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to glia.

Similar:
neuroglial, astroglial, gliotic, panglial, ganglial, axoglial, gangliac, microglial, gliogenic, gliofibrillary, more...

Opposite:
neuronal, non-glial, non-supportive

Types:
microglia, astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, ependymal cell, schwann cell, more...

Phrases:
glial cells, glial cell, glial tumor, glial nodule, glial fibrillary acidic protein, more...

Adjectives:
human, neuron, radial, retinal, cultured, mixed, external, specific, perivascular, primary, astrocytic

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Similar:
neuroglial, astroglial, gliotic, panglial, ganglial, axoglial, gangliac, microglial, gliogenic, gliofibrillary, more...

Opposite:
neuronal, non-glial, non-supportive

Types:
microglia, astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, ependymal cell, schwann cell, more...

Phrases:
glial cells, glial cell, glial tumor, glial nodule, glial fibrillary acidic protein, glial c's, glial cs, nervous system neurons and glial cells, radial glial cell, Satellite glial cell, more...

Adjectives:
human, neuron, radial, retinal, cultured, mixed, external, specific, perivascular, primary, astrocytic

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     light blue,     pale green, more...



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