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One acting on impulse?
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neuron
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context cytology English) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a nerve cell with appendages," 1891, from German Neuron , from Greek neuron (see neuro- ). Used earlier (1884) for "the spinal cord and brain."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses [syn: nerve cell ]
Usage examples of neuron.
They may be stimulated by impulses either from the intermediate neurons, or from branches of the afferent neurons.
A complex system of intermediate neurons, found mostly in the brain, join the afferent with the efferent pathways.
Her Altiplano conscience worried about the quickness with which her retrained neurons pushed away that momentary pang of guilt, and she grinned mentally at it.
His cutting out the tangle of abnormal vessels, the capsular angioma that he suspected, while leaving the rest of the anatomy intact, was so tricky the operation itself could further destroy neurons, making her worse off and possibly killing her.
The axon of a neuron may make a junction not only with another neuron but also with some organ to which it carries its impulse, usually a muscle.
A neuron consists of a soma, which is its central cell body, and an axon and dendrites.
It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire, including various forms of learning, while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells - no more than 20,000 neurons in all, arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal.
In turn, the navpanel, activating neurons in the cochlear division of the eighth nerve, sent its stream of data directly into his brain where it was translated as sound.
The cruciform, in order to restore the mind and body of a human being, must not only keep track of these atoms and neurons, but remember the precise configuration of the standing holistic wave front which comprises the human memory and personality.
Nestled in a nutlike shell no larger than a human fist, the organ was a tangle of axons and dendrons webbing together a gelatinous muddle of neuron clusters.
There are about ten million dimers per neuron, and because of their tiny size each one ought to operate about a million times as fast as a neuron can fire.
The cloning department had worked overtime growing new batches of Emir embryos for the fetal neurons and glia they could supply and prepared appropriate annealing solutions of disaggregated cells with which the surgeons would bathe the central nervous system splices.
A ropy mass of neurons, interlaced with augmentations of my jugular vein and my two carotid arteries, extended from beneath my orphaned medulla and stretched across four feet of empty space before disappearing into my reopened fontanel, the whole arrangement shielded from microbial contamination by a flexible plastic tube.
The lack of inflammation coupled with neuron loss and gliosis made me think it might be some kind of pr ion disease.
It was soon apparent that the vital molecule was the transmitter amino acid, glutamate, well known as one of the commonest of the excitatory neurotransmitters of the brain and present in high concentration within neurons.