cell body

the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.

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At the point where they become continuous with the cell-body there is usually a deeply staining “basal granule.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8|Various
Each one is simply a specially contractile continuation of the protoplasm of the cell-body.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition|Vernon L. Kellogg
As the chromosomes go toward the poles the cell-body begins to constrict at the equator.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation|Austin O'Malley
Chromosomes at the poles forming the Diaster, beginning splitting of the Cell-body.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation|Austin O'Malley

Thus, by this first ergonomy, the nucleus became the vehicle of heredity and the cell-body the organ of adaptation.
The Wonders of Life|Ernst Haeckel

cell body

The part of a neuron containing the nucleus but not incorporating the axon and dendrites.soma

cell body

The portion of a neuron that contains the nucleus but does not incorporate the dendrites or axon.