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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Origin of cell body
First recorded in 1875–80
Also called perikaryon.
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Each one is simply a specially contractile continuation of the protoplasm of the cell-body.
Elementary Zoology, Second EditionVernon 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 LifeErnst Haeckel
Hence many cytologists regard the centrosoma as a secondary product of differentiation in the cell-body, not the nucleus.
The Wonders of LifeErnst Haeckel
At the point where they become continuous with the cell-body there is usually a deeply staining “basal granule.”
The division of the cell-body is completed midway between the two daughter-nuclei.
Darwin and Modern ScienceA.C. Seward and Others
cell body
- The part of a neuron containing the nucleus but not incorporating the axon and dendrites.soma
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cell body
- The portion of a neuron that contains the nucleus but does not incorporate the dendrites or axon.
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