microglia

English Thesaurus

1. neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic (noun.body)

hypernym	:	glia, neuroglia,
definition	:	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 (noun.body)

part holonym	:	microgliacyte,
definition	:	a cell of the microglia that may become phagocytic and collect waste products of nerve tissue (noun.body)