cell body

noun Biology.

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

Origin of cell body

First recorded in 1875–80

Also called perikaryon.

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Examples from the Web for cell body

Historical Examples of cell body

Each one is simply a specially contractile continuation of the protoplasm of the cell-body.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition
Vernon L. Kellogg
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
Hence many cytologists regard the centrosoma as a secondary product of differentiation in the cell-body, not the nucleus.
The Wonders of Life
Ernst Haeckel
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
The division of the cell-body is completed midway between the two daughter-nuclei.
Darwin and Modern Science
A.C. Seward and Others

cell body in Medicine

cell body

n.

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

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cell body in Science

cell body

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

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