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gliosis

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A proliferation of astrocytes in damaged areas of the central nervous system. This proliferation usually leads to the formation of a glial scar.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Italianogliosi

Examples

Material for the second MS library (herein MS2) came from a pool of tissues from two patients, one with acute, active lesions and widespread inflammatory involvement in the white matter, and the other with chronic, "silent" lesions, with gliosis, but without evidence of a lymphocytic infiltrate.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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