Pathologic Function
gliosis
[ glahy-oh-sis ]
Subclass of:
Pathologic Processes
Definitions related to gliosis:
  • An excess of neuroglia in damaged areas of the central nervous system.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Gliosis is the focal proliferation of glial cells in the central nervous system.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • Nonspecific reactive response of nervous system glial cells, chiefly astrocytes and microglia rather than oligodendroglia.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Reactive astrocytic proliferation associated with fibrous tissue formation, secondary to damage (trauma or ischemia) to the central nervous system.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The production of a dense fibrous network of neuroglia; includes astrocytosis, which is a proliferation of astrocytes in the area of a degenerative lesion.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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