ganglion

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The Pamir and all the huge mountain ranges which have their roots in this ganglion are the skeleton of Asia, the framework round which the lowlands cling like masses of muscle.

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  1. noun Anatomy A group of nerve cells forming a nerve center, especially one located outside the brain or spinal cord.
  2. noun A center of power, activity, or energy.
  3. noun Pathology A benign cystic lesion resembling a tumor, occurring in a tendon sheath or joint capsule.

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  • I built my Far Traveling Device with fragments of wired together ganglion, the seat of invisible perception, of intuitive awareness. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 04-05 - October-November 2000
  • El-Sherbeny A, Naggar H, Miyauchi S, Ola MS, Maddox DM, et al. (2004) Osmoregulation of taurine transporter function and expression in retinal pigment epithelial, ganglion, and muller cells. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • This ganglion is present also in human beings, according to the scientist Hans Grueneberg who discovered it in 1973. to comment, but it's easier if you do so. —  Neatorama
  • The lower wall of the infra-orbital canal is cut away by a chisel, the posterior wall of the antrum by a smaller trephine, the nerve thus isolated is traced up to and past Meckel's ganglion, which is removed close to the foramen rotundum by cutting the nerve by curved blunt-pointed scissors 2. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • In the anterior region of the neck it dilates to form a superior cervical ganglion, and opposite the first rib it forms an inferior cervical ganglion. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
 

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  1. From Greek, cystlike tumor, nerve bundle.

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  1. from Late Latin ganglion, a tumor, from Greek γάγγλιον, a tumor under the skin, on or near a tendon.
 

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