ganglion
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The researchers then focused on the trigeminal ganglion, which contains the cell bodies of facial sensory neurons.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
If short-wavelength light activates the ganglion cells, they signal to the internal clock that it is daytime.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
During development, the retinal ganglion cells also generate their own neuronal activity.
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
The team also tested a more direct method by injecting isolated mitochondria from both humans and mice into the dorsal root ganglia, clusters of nerve cells that send sensory information to the brain.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
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 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
“We’re working on the spinal ganglia, too. Someday the Boneli test will fade into yesterday’s hoary shroud of spiritual oblivion.”
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
A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Of course," muttered the shaken aviator, "I'd forgotten a reptile's ganglions will keep on beating for hours, like that shark we killed off Paumotu.
From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Harry Bates
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