ganglion

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

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023

However, the stimulation of the light-sensitive ganglion cells was the same in all three conditions.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023

Retinal ganglion cells are the gatekeepers for the visual input that reaches the brain.

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

He is more like a ganglion on legs.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Dopamine is another major chemical messenger that sends signals to the basal ganglia, a brain region involved in forming habits.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

These overstimulated immune cells then move toward the dorsal root ganglia -- the sensory nerve hubs that link the limbs to the spinal cord -- and release inflammatory compounds that irritate and damage nerves.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2025

The cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia are parts of the brain critical for many cognitive processes, including motor activity and behaviors to gain rewards such as food and water.

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Similarly, bodily habits, like feeling hunger or being insensible to it, appear to have their origin in those ganglions and not in any sort of thought.

From The White Sister by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Could it be, as many of his nobles held, that the old monarch's hump was his sensorium and source of strength; full of nerves, muscles, ganglions and tendons?

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville