ganglion

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If short-wavelength light activates the ganglion cells, they signal to the internal clock that it is daytime.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2023

In addition, the axons of retinal ganglion cells secrete molecular factors that are received by cells in the central brain and induce developmental changes.

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

Doctors sometimes use anesthetic medications to block the sphenopalatine ganglion as a treatment for migraine.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

He is more like a ganglion on legs.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas