ground substance

Noun ground substance has 2 senses

• ground substance(n = noun.body) intercellular substance, matrix - the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded;
is a kind of body substance
is a part of bone, os, connective tissue, cartilage, gristle

• ground substance(n = noun.body) hyaloplasm - the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell;
is a kind of cytol, cytoplasm