perikaryon

American  

[per-i-kar-ee-on, -uhn] / ˌpɛr ɪˈkær iˌɒn, -ən /

noun

Biology.

perikarya plural

1. cell body.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• perikarya
  plural

Etymology

Origin of perikaryon

1895–1900; peri- + Greek káryon nut, kernel

Example Sentences

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perikaryon perikarya

In some few cells the axone breaks up into branches in the immediate neighbourhood of its own perikaryon in the cortex.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

The cortical neurone therefore collects impulses in the region of cortex just about its perikaryon and discharges them to other regions, some not cortical or even cerebral, but spinal, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

From the base often near its middle arises one large fibre—the axone fibre, which conducts impulses away from the perikaryon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

The apices of the pyramidal perikarya are turned towards the free surface of the cortex.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

It is therefore probably to perikarya and synapses that the greater part of the co-ordination, elaboration and differentiation of nervous reactions is due.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

Now, perikarya and synapses are not present in the white matter of the central nervous organ, any more than they are in nerve-trunks.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various