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Definition of Purkinje cell
1. Noun. A large densely branching neuron that is the characteristic cell of the cerebellar cortex.
Definition of Purkinje cell
1. Noun. A cerebellar cell of a particular type. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purkinje Cell
Literary usage of Purkinje cell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 (1903)
"In the purkinje cell, to the right, the base of each of the two large dendritic
... The purkinje cell to the left shows only one of these processes in this ..."
2. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1915)
"191) are shown in gray, and the terminal branches of an afferent neuron are seen
twining about the dendritic branches of the purkinje cell, thus forming a ..."
3. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1907)
"Persistence of but one purkinje cell, which was intensely eosino- philic and
shows an eccentric nucleus; 2. Sparse and pyknotic granule cell nuclei in one ..."
4. The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Central Nervous System by Hermon C. Gordinier (1899)
"... form of nerve-cell is the so-called purkinje cell, found in the cortex of the
cerebellum, where they form a distinct layer. They are quite regular in ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"In the purkinje cell, to the right, the base of each of the two large dendritic
... The purkinje cell to the left shows only one of these processes in this ..."
6. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"The greater the degree of purkinje cell destruction, the thinner the rind (Fig.
5). ... 6 and 7), degenerating purkinje cell dendrons and, where these have ..."
7. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1904)
"... cortex surround the larger dendritic processes. These are known as "climbing"
fibres. The axone of the purkinje cell is given off from the side of the ..."
8. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"Thus the purkinje cell is stimulated at three points: cell body, trunks of the
dendrites, and twigs of the dendrites. terminate, their end-brushes forming ..."
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