Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to a ganglion or ganglia; ganglionic.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a ganglion

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Examples

  • While the tired, sweaty tourists around the city didn't erupt into a riotous mob, this incident left us wondering whether they could be agitated into a pillaging horde, ransacking archaeological sites and museums, by strategically pinching the right combination of ganglial pathways of the city's infrastructural network.

    Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales 2009

  • While the tired, sweaty tourists around the city didn't erupt into a riotous mob, this incident left us wondering whether they could be agitated into a pillaging horde, ransacking archaeological sites and museums, by strategically pinching the right combination of ganglial pathways of the city's infrastructural network.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • My mother had the ganglial swelling removed some 25 years ago and had no further problems.

    dustbury.com » WWRW? 2008

  • They are characterized by two largely independent nerve rings which coordinate overall motor and sensory functions, and five aggregations of ganglial consolidation which serve to actuate their characteristic arms – but they lack anything like an integrative center, or brain.

    Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms 2007

  • Since preferential attachment is known to give rise to scale free networks, it is tempting to think that something analagous to preferential attachment may have played a role in the emergence of ganglial organization of nervous systems.

    Evolvable by design - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • It has also long been well known that cone cells in the fovea connect 1: 1 to the ganglial neuron cells that begin the processing and transmission of visual data, while elsewhere on the retina, multiple photo-receptor cells-cones and rods-connect to each ganglion cell.

    UXmatters 2010

  • Sever the symbiont’s ganglial link to the host’s spinal cord at a point slightly above the sacroiliac.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Carefully sever the symbiont’s ganglial bond to the spinal cord just above the sacroiliac.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Sever the symbiont’s ganglial link to the host’s spinal cord at a point slightly above the sacroiliac.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Carefully sever the symbiont’s ganglial bond to the spinal cord just above the sacroiliac.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

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