Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun microglia

1 sense of microglia

Sense 1
microglia -- (neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic)
       => neuroglia, glia -- (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)