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Definition of Ganglia
1. ganglion [n] - See also: ganglion
Medical Definition of Ganglia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ganglia
Literary usage of Ganglia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"It consists of a series of ganglia, connected together by intervening cords, ...
It may, moreover, be traced up into the head, where the ganglia (which are ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The branches of communication between the ganglia are composed of gray and white
nerve-fibres, the latter being continuous with those fibres of the spinal ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Nerve-ganglia and latter has non-glandular walls, Cords of three ... In Anodonta
there arc three well-developed pairs of nerve ganglia (fig. ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"In examining spinal ganglia a cell is sometimes found which bears no trace of
any process ... The ganglia of the splanchnic system, like the spinal ganglia, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"Some of these ganglia had the usual appearance of ganglia of the great sympathetic,
with nerves entering and nerves passing out from them, ..."
6. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"(c) The Cerebral ganglia and Eyes. — These ganglia are formed on each side of
... The method in which the ganglia are formed is shown in section in Figs. ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It is also evident that the cerebral ganglia are composed of several ganglia
fused together, and acquire functional importance as the sense-organs are more ..."
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