词根词缀：balustrad-, balust-, balaust-

【来源及含义】Greek balaustion > Latin balaustium: supporting post of a railing on a balcony, staircase, etc. Borrowed from Italian balaustro, from balaustra; so called because of the resemblance of a baluster to the double-curving calyx tube of the "wild pomegranate flower".

【同源单词】baluster, baluster measure, baluster stem, balustered, baluster-shaft, balustrade

词根词缀：glio-, gli-, glia-, -glia

【来源及含义】Greek: glue; in medicine, the network of supporting tissue and fibers that nourishes nerve cells within the brain and spinal cord

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to "cell, cells, cell nucleus": celli-; cellulo-; cyto-; endothelio-; gameto-; kary-, karyo-; neuro-.

【同源单词】angioglioma, astroglia, glia, gliacyte, glial, glial cell