nerve cell

noun

a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses

• Syn: ↑neuron

• Derivationally related forms: ↑neural (for: ↑neuron), ↑neuronic (for: ↑neuron), ↑neuronal (for: ↑neuron)

• Hypernyms: ↑somatic cell, ↑vegetative cell

• Hyponyms:

↑ganglion cell, ↑gangliocyte, ↑brain cell, ↑motor neuron, ↑efferent neuron, ↑motor nerve fiber, ↑motoneuron, ↑sensory neuron, ↑afferent neuron

• Part Holonyms: ↑nervous system, ↑systema nervosum

• Part Meronyms: ↑axon, ↑axone, ↑dendrite

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noun

: one of the cells that constitute nervous tissue, that have the property of transmitting and receiving nervous impulses, and that are typically composed in higher animals and man of somewhat reddish or grayish protoplasm with a large nucleus containing a conspicuous nucleolus, irregular cytoplasmic granules, and cytoplasmic processes which are highly differentiated as frequently multiple dendrites or usually solitary axons and which conduct impulses toward and away from the nerve cell body : neuron; sometimes : a nerve cell body exclusive of its processes : the major structural element of the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord, the ganglia, and the retina

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neuron.

[1855-60]

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nerve cell noun

1. Any cell forming part of the nervous system

2. A neuron

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Main Entry: ↑nerve

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nerve cell,

1. a cell that conducts impulses; neuron: »

The other part is in a special membrane of nerve cell material wrapped around the brain capillaries (Science News Letter).

2. the cell body of a neuron, excluding its fibers.

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n. a neuron

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noun, pl ⋯ cells [count]

: ↑neuron