Crossword clues for ganglia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ganglion \Gan"gli*on\, n.; pl. L. Ganglia, E. Ganglions. [L. ganglion a sort of swelling or excrescence, a tumor under the skin, Gr. ?: cf. F. ganglion.]
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(Anat.)
A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.
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(Med.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew.
Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (plural of ganglion English) -- clusters of nerves
WordNet
n. an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons
[also: ganglia (pl)]
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Wikipedia
Ganglia is a scalable distributed system monitor tool for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and grids. It allows the user to remotely view live or historical statistics (such as CPU load averages or network utilization) for all machines that are being monitored.
The term ganglia may refer to:
- Plural form of ganglion, a cluster of neurons
- Lymph node
- Ganglion cyst
- Ganglia (software), a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems
Usage examples of "ganglia".
In some cases, the ganglia separating the preganglionic fibers from the postganglionic fibers are actually located within the organ the nerve is servicing.
It arises in the motor area of the cortex, passes down through the basal ganglia and the brain stem, then down the spinal cord on either side, right and left, forming synaptic connections with the various spinal nerves.
The basal ganglia are difficult to study, obscured as they are by the cerebral cortex.
When this function of the basal ganglia is interfered with, sections of the motor area may indeed fire off too readily, and then there are rapid involuntary muscle contractions.
Relief from some of the symptoms has been achieved by deliberately damaging the basal ganglia, which seems to be a case of "a hair of the dog.
Apparently, nonfunctioning ganglia are preferable to misfunctioning ones.
Sometimes damage to the basal ganglia may result in more spasmodic and extensive involuntary muscular movements.
G), because this is the end of the central nervous system if you work from the bottom up, whereas the basal ganglia, thalamus, and hypothalamus are the diencephalon {"between-brain" G}.
This is done in response to impulses from the basal ganglia above the brain stem.
If an animal's brain is cut between the cerebrum and the brain stem, these relaxing impulses from the basal ganglia can no longer reach the muscles.
In cooperation, basal ganglia and brain stem act so that appropriate muscles are stiffened or relaxed, so that equilibrium is constantly maintained.
Thus, if the body is out of equilibrium and if the basal ganglia begin a change in the tension of particular muscles in order to restore equilibrium, sensory impulses must be received at each instant to indicate the departure from equilibrium at that moment, in order for the tension of the muscles to be constantly adjusted (feedback).
These cell body collections are ganglia, a word I discussed on page 184.
The first set of fibers leads from the central nervous system to ganglia (which are, you may remember, collections of nerve cell bodies) that lie outside the central nervous system.
At the ganglia the fibers form synaptic junctions with the dendrites of as many as twenty different cell bodies.