nerve cell

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nerve cell

noun nerve cells

  1. A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron. The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are or

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noun cell of the nervous system — see also neuron

Españolneurona
한국어신경 세포 sin'gyeong sepo
日本語神経細胞 shinkei saibō
中文神經細胞 /神经细胞 shénjīng xìbāo
हिन्दीतंत्रिकोशिका tantrikośikā
Portuguêsneurónio, neurônio
Françaiscellule nerveuse, neurone
DeutschNervenzelle, Neuron
Românăcelulă nervoasă
Русскийне́рвная кле́тка nérvnaja klétka, нейро́н nejrón
Tiếng Việttế bào thần kinh
العربيةعَصْبُون ʕaṣbūn, خَلِيَّة عَصَبِيَّة ḵaliyya ʕaṣabiyya

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@misc{nerve_cell_2026,
  title = {nerve cell},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nerve%20cell},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}