nerve cell

American  

noun

1. neuron.

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nerve cell British  

noun

1. another name for neurone

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nerve cell Scientific  

1. See neuron

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Etymology

Origin of nerve cell

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Its inner region, called gray matter, contains nerve cell bodies along with astrocytes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026

By mapping these gene activity patterns, they produced a detailed cellular atlas outlining the boundaries between distinct nerve cell types across the CA1 region.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2025

The team engineered a peptide fragment that locks alpha-synuclein into its healthy shape, blocking its conversion into the toxic clumps that cause nerve cell death.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

These channels are like molecular machines that sense electrical signals and then open to allow calcium to flow into the nerve cell.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

They can specify how a nerve cell communicates with another nerve cell and thus become the arbiters of normal cognition and neural development.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee