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ganglion

/gang-glee-uhn/US // ˈgæŋ gli ən //UK // (ˈɡæŋɡlɪən) //

神经节,神经节区,神经元,神经节块

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gan·gli·a [gang-glee-uh], /ˈgæŋ gli ə/, gan·gli·ons.

    • : Anatomy. a mass of nerve tissue existing outside the central nervous system.any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia.
    • : Pathology. a cyst or enlargement in connection with the sheath of a tendon, usually at the wrist.
    • : a center of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.

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Examples

  • These signals are passed through a neural network to the eye-brain liaison, ganglion cells.

  • The team targeted ganglion cells, the nexus between the eyes and the brain.

  • The ganglion cells fire messages to visual centers in the brain.

  • They process visual information and pass signals on to ganglion cells in the third layer.

  • That is because ganglion cells usually respond to changes in light.

  • There must therefore be an isolated ganglion in front and two ganglia, close to each other, about two-fifths of an inch back.

  • Do they actually wound with their dirks the ganglion whose influence is to be done away with?

  • Do they confine themselves to lodging their drop of poison on the ganglion, or at all events in its immediate neighbourhood?

  • A cinder enters the eye, the report reaches a ganglion, a motor impulse is sent forth, and the eyelid closes.

  • A single ganglion represents the nervous system, placed between the two apertures.