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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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023

He is more like a ganglion on legs.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The basal ganglia receive information from the cerebral cortex, which helps control thinking, social behavior, and the ability to decide which sensory information deserves attention.

From Science Daily ● May 10, 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

They found that DRN serotonin stimulation causes activation of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, brain areas involved in many cognitive functions.

From Science Daily ● May 31, 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

The sting must therefore pierce the cervical ganglions; the centre of innervation upon which the rest of the organism is dependent.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

My ganglions were still vibrating as I ran the car into the stables of Brinkley Court, and it was a much shaken Bertram who tottered up to his room to change into something loose.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse