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
However, the stimulation of the light-sensitive ganglion cells was the same in all three conditions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
In contrast, they found 21 orthotypes of retinal ganglion cells, which exhibit greater variation among species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 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
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
Results show 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 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
“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
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
The thing got right in among Lord Wetherby's highly sensitive ganglions like an earthquake.
From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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