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ganglion

[gang-glee-uhn] / ˈgæŋ gli ən /


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"Rather, our results support the findings of many other studies that the light-sensitive ganglion cells are most important for the human internal clock," says the scientist.

From Science Daily Dec. 22, 2023

These cell types make up only 2% to 4% of all ganglion cells in mice, whereas 90% of retinal ganglion cells are midget cells in humans.

From Science Daily Dec. 13, 2023

These mutants have a genetic defect that prevents retinal ganglion cells from forming.

From Science Daily Sep. 28, 2023

It found people with Parkinson's had a thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and inner nuclear layer in the eye.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2023

You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The striatum is part of the basal ganglia, a group of neuron clusters located deep in the brain.

From Science Daily May 10, 2026

The basal ganglia receives signals from the motor cortex as skaters leap and twirl in the air.

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2024

Additionally, basal ganglia abnormalities could potentially serve as early biomarkers of an increased likelihood of developmental language problems.

From Science Daily Mar. 15, 2024

Subcortical structures in the brain, responsible for children's temperament or motor functions such as the amygdala and basal ganglia, may be more vulnerable to factors affecting the placenta in the second trimester.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2024

“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

They have a brain that’s wrapped around their esophagus, ganglions on every one of their little suckers.

From Slate May 31, 2017

Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions.

From Time Magazine Archive

His ganglions were big, as was the case in all great preachers.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies

After peace had been signed he was sent into garrison at Toulon and Monaco, where an inflammation of the lymphatic ganglions of the neck necessitated an operation which left him deeply scarred for life.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler




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