Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, a nerve-cell which has a well-marked nucleus and nucleolus, and sends off one or more processes, usually branching, which connect physiologically with other similar processes of cells, or, in some cases, constitute peripheral nerve-fibers.
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Both the authors who emphasize the purposefulness of the reflex act, and those who see in it only a physical process, have invariably looked upon the ganglion-cell as the principal bearer of the structures for the complex co-ordinated movements in reflex action.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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The ganglion-cell seems the only place where such mechanical effects could be stored up.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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