Definition of Golgi cell

1. Noun. A neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter.

Exact synonyms: Golgi's Cell
Generic synonyms: Brain Cell
Group relationships: Cerebral Cortex, Cerebral Mantle, Cortex, Pallium, Medulla Spinalis, Spinal Cord

Medical Definition of Golgi cell

1. A type of neuron that is found in the cerebral cortex and parts of the spinal cord. It is multipolar. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Golgi Cell

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golgi cell (current term)
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Literary usage of Golgi cell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"golgi cell of Type I 11 5. golgi cell of Type II from cerebellum of cat . ... Cell intermediate in form between Hint of golgi cell Type I an.l that of Golgi ..."

2. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"Such cells are known as golgi cell type 1. (Fig. 61). In others the axone branches rapidly and ends in the gray matter in the vicinity of its cell of ..."

3. Contributions to Medical Research: Dedicated to Victor Clarence Vaughan by by University of Michigan (1903)
"... and as long as the cell processes possess the power of growth, is intimately connected with the nucleated portion of the golgi cell; in many instances, ..."

4. Mental medicine and nursing for use in training-schools for nurses and in by Robert Howland Chase (1915)
"3), because the impulse generated in it is carried or projected to other and distant regions; this is the golgi cell of the first type. Intermediary Cells. ..."

5. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology by Fielding Hudson Garrison (1913)
"... and strikingly demonstrated the existence of multi- polar nerve-cells, having long and short axis-cylinder processes (golgi cell? ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"... into terminal twigs in the vicinity of the cell-bodies from which they arise. Type II is generally termed, for brevity's sake, the golgi cell. FJO. 582. ..."

7. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"... these cells would seem to have a distributive function. The impulse that they receive may be trans- Fig. 58.—golgi cell (second type). ..."

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