Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A special cortical cell supposed to be the seat of the memory-image of a sensation: opposed to sensory cell.
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Examples
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"I will give thee a new name" flashed into his thoughts, as some memory-cell of boyhood discharged its little burden most opportunely and proceeded to refill itself.
The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910
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