oligodendria

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1. tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers (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	:	oligodendrocyte,
definition	:	a cell of the oligodendroglia (noun.body)

part meronym	:	medullary sheath, myelin sheath,
definition	:	a layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers (noun.body)