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THE NEUROGLIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THE NEUROGLIA is the delicate connective See also:

tissue which supports and binds together the See also:nervous elements of the central nervous See also:system. One See also:part of it, which lines the central See also:canal of the See also:cord and ventricles of the See also:brain, is formed of columnar cells, and is called ependyma, while the See also:rest consists of small cells with numerous processes which sometimes See also:branch and sometimes do not. These See also:fibres interlace with one another to See also:form a delicate See also:felt-See also:work which is unmixed with nervous elements on the See also:surface of the See also:grey See also:matter of the brain (see BRAIN, See also:figs. 7 and 15), though elsewhere it is inter-See also:woven with them.

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