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Ganglions

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.]

  1. (Anat.)

    1. A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.

    2. A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

  2. (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.

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ganglions

n. (plural of ganglion English)

Usage examples of "ganglions".

For the stab in the thoracic ganglions, however efficacious, is often insufficient.

There was a quivering release of pent-up alien misery, a ripple that dispersed quickly across the dump as the slake-moth’s empathic ganglions flexed in death.

It was taut and punctured easily, but it healed fast, in ugly, thick scars—most cactacae were covered in harmless ganglions of scab tissue.

It was one nerve fibre in the city’s ganglions, a thick cord among many.

Anyway, the contractions came easily, thoughtlessly induced by the still-functioning ganglions in Marion's spine.