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Ganglion   Listen
noun
Ganglion  n.  (pl. L. ganglia, E. ganglions)  
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
(b)
A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.
2.
(Med.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; called also weeping sinew.
Ganglion cell, a nerve cell.





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"Ganglion" Quotes from Famous Books



... the eyelids in animals born of parents in which that state of the eyelids had been caused either by the section of the cervical sympathetic nerve or the removal of the superior cervical ganglion. ...
— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler
... recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou


Words linked to "Ganglion" :   autonomic ganglion, ganglion cell, nervous system


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