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neuron
[ noor-on, nyoor- ]
noun
- Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
neuron
/ nr′ŏn′ /
- A cell of the nervous system. Neurons typically consist of a cell body, which contains a nucleus and receives incoming nerve impulses, and an axon, which carries impulses away from the cell body.
- Also called nerve cell
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Other Words From
- neu·ron·al [noor, -, uh, -nl, nyoor, -, n, oo, -, rohn, -l, ny, oo, -], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of neuron1
First recorded in 1880–85, neuron is from the Greek word neûron sinew, cord, nerve
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Example Sentences
Aren't all facts, at the neuron and synapse level, really the same?
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Hawking, 71, has been suffering from the debilitating motor neuron disease ALS for half a century.
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The current issue of Neuron features a new study on selective memory erasure.
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These are transferred from neuron to neuron through the synapse.
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Even though the peripheral neuron may be suffering to some extent, this is true.
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The contact of the axon of one neuron with the dendrons of another is called a synapse.
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That is not a loss of memory but a failure of neuron connections.
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Every efferent neuron in his system carried the message full power.
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