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Definition of Neurons

1. neuron [n] - See also: neuron

Medical Definition of Neurons

1. Any of the conducting cells of the nervous system. A typical neuron consists of a cell body, containing the nucleus and the surrounding cytoplasm (perikaryon); several short radiating processes (dendrites); and one long process (the axon), which terminates in twiglike branches (telodendrons) and may have branches (collaterals) projecting along its course. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neurons

Literary usage of Neurons

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

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(b) Lesions Involving only the Lower Motor neurons in the Spinal Cord (Anterior-horn Lesions') When the lower motor neurons in the spinal cord are involved ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"This band is flanked by two diagonal bands of density lower than the uniform background density; these reflect the refractory properties of the neurons. ..."

3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"In the stomatogastric nervous system of the crab, Cancer borealis, a set of 4 serotonergic/cholinergic proprioceptive neurons, ..."

4. Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1919)
"Many neurons are very long; the sensory fibers from the toes to the ... There are several different sorts of neurons, varying in the size of their cell body ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"The neurons of the motor area of the cortex present not only protoplasmic extensions directed towards the surface of the cortex, but also an extension ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"The neurons of the motor area of the cortex present not only protoplasmic extensions directed towards the surface of the cortex, but also an extension ..."

7. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"Using a vertebrate insulin-binding domain antibody, we found an Mr 130000 protein that is predominately localized to bag cell neurons and which is similar ..."

8. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"One of the most important problems in neurology, therefore, is this: How are the neurons related to each other so that the impulse may be propagated from ..."

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