neuropile
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1. the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | nerve tissue, nervous tissue, |
| definition | : | tissue composed of neurons (noun.body) |
| substance meronym | : | gray matter, gray substance, grey matter, grey substance, substantia grisea, |
| definition | : | greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons (noun.body) |
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