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neuropil

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neuropil /neu·ro·pil/ (noor´o-pil) a feltwork of interwoven dendrites and axons and of neuroglial cells in the gray matter of the central nervous system.
neu·ro·pil (nr-pl) or neu·ro·pile (-pl)
n.
The complex net of axonal, dendritic, and glial branchings that forms the bulk of the central nervous system gray matter of the brain and in which the nerve cell bodies are embedded.

neuropil, neuropile
a dense feltwork of interwoven cytoplasmic processes of nerve cells (dendrites and axons) and of neuroglial cells in the central nervous system and some parts of the peripheral nervous system.


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