Synonyms for nerve cell


Grammar : Noun


Définition of nerve cell

  • noun cell of the nervous system
Example sentences :
  • It is the signal "all is well," passed from one nerve cell to another.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • Fig. 13 shows a nerve cell of a sparrow at the end of a day's activity and the same after the repose of a night.
  • Extract from : « Disease and Its Causes » by William Thomas Councilman
  • The living protoplasm of the nerve cell has a gray color, so that wherever this shows we have what is commonly called gray matter.
  • Extract from : « Physiology » by Ernest G. Martin
  • It is a general rule of the nervous system that no nerve cell extends without a break from any sense organ to any muscle fiber.
  • Extract from : « Physiology » by Ernest G. Martin
  • A nerve impulse is a wave of electricity started and conducted by a nerve cell.
  • Extract from : « A Thought For Tomorrow » by Robert E. Gilbert
  • The function of the nerve cell is to produce movement, or to preserve it, or to direct it; ii is material like the cells.
  • Extract from : « The Mind and the Brain » by Alfred Binet
  • A most interesting body it proved, this nerve cell, or ganglion cell, as it came to be called.
  • Extract from : « A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) » by Henry Smith Williams
  • In the modified view, the nerve cell retains its old position as the storehouse of nervous energy.
  • Extract from : « A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) » by Henry Smith Williams
  • Every nerve cell has two functions, one connected with sensation or motion, and the other with growth.
  • Extract from : « Degeneracy » by Eugene S. Talbot

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