: excessive development of the astroglia : gliosis
Astrocytes respond to all forms of CNS insults through a process referred to as reactive astrogliosis, which has become a pathological hallmark of CNS structural lesions.—Michael V. Sofroniew and Harry V. Vinters, Acta Neuropathologica
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