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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of the impulse-conducting cells that constitute the brain, spinal column, and nerves, consisting of a nucleated cell body with one or more dendrites and a single axon. Also called nerve cell.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The cerebrospinal axis in its entirety; the whole of the encephalon and myelon, or brain and spinal cord, considered as one.
  2. n. In entomology, a nervure of an insect's wing; a vein or costa.
  3. n. Same as neurone.

Wiktionary

  1. n. cytology A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.), obsolete The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon.
  2. n. (Cell Biology) The characteristic specialized cell that is part of the nervous system, serving to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain, and also between other parts of the body, and composed of a main cell body, the axon, with a varying number of processes of varying length, the dendrites; a nerve cell. The movement and behavior of higher animals depends on the signals tranmsitted by such nerve cells.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neuron, "nerve"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek, sinew, string, nerve; see (s)neəu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. myelencephalon
  1. neurocyte
  1. nerve cell

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. vegetative cell
  1. somatic cell

hyponyms (9)

Words that are more specific

  1. brain cell
  1. motoneuron
  1. motor nerve fiber
  1. sensory neuron
  1. motor neuron
  1. ganglion cell
  1. afferent neuron
  1. gangliocyte
  1. efferent neuron

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. interneuron
  2. synapses
  3. arteriole
  1. neural
  2. synapse
  3. lymph
  1. neuronal
  2. axon
  3. sensory
  1. positronic
  2. cortical
  3. endothelial
  1. secretory
  2. nerve
  3. platelet

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. motoneuron
  2. motor neuron
  3. sensory neuron
  4. efferent neuron
  5. motor nerve fiber
  6. afferent neuron
  7. neura
  1. neurone
  2. nerve cell
  3. dendrite
  4. diaxon
  5. neurenteric
  6. neuromere
  7. neuromerous
  1. realview3d
  2. cœloneura
  3. cœloneural
  4. reuptake
  5. neurofibril
  6. facilitation
  7. Purkinje cell
  1. unipolar
  2. synapse
  3. nerve fiber
  4. perikaryon
  5. fire
  6. refractory period
  7. bipolar
  1. sympathetic
  2. end plate
  3. golgi cell
  4. golgi's cell
  5. motor end plate
  6. axon
  7. axone
  1. monocœlia
  2. cytothesis
  3. dendraxon

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