gliogenesis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The generation of non-neuronal glia populations derived from multipotent neural stem cells.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The "indifferent cell" described by Schaper was an apolar element occurring ubiquitously in the growing central nervous system and capable of the dual function of neurogenesis and gliogenesis."
- "Specifically, growing evidence indicates that there are several astroglial lineages, that there are regional differences in the patterns of gliogenesis within the CNS, that astrocytes from different brain regions have distinct properties (see Chapter 4), and that glial progenitors remain in the adult mammalian CNS."
Etymology
From glio- + -genesis.