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Nerve cell   /nərv sɛl/   Listen
Nerve cell

noun
1.
A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses.  Synonym: neuron.






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"Nerve cell" Quotes from Famous Books



... If she had been through the violent illness of the parasite's incubation, she should now have one of the squeaking little degenerates in place of a brain. The fibers of the small animals grew slowly along the neural arcs, replacing each nerve cell, forming a junction at each synapse. There was reason to believe that the parasite preserved the memories that had been stored in the brain, but they became blended with all the other individualities that comprised Oren, ...
— Collectivum • Mike Lewis



Words linked to "Nerve cell" :   vegetative cell, brain cell, nervous system, afferent neuron, gangliocyte, ganglion cell, axone, sensory neuron, efferent neuron, somatic cell, dendrite, motor neuron, axon, systema nervosum, motor nerve fiber, motoneuron



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