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neuron
[ noor-on, nyoor- ]
noun
- Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
neuron
- A cell of the nervous system. Neurons typically consist of a cell body, which contains a nucleus and receives incoming nerve impulses, and an axon, which carries impulses away from the cell body.
- Also called nerve cell
Other Word Forms
- Ա·Dz· [noor, -, uh, -nl, nyoor, -, n, oo, -, rohn, -l, ny, oo, -], adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of neuron1
Example Sentences
These neurons produce cognition by the patterns in which groups of them fire at once — a model that has inspired advanced computers and AI.
Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, or neurons.
Musk was cagey in public at the time, simply writing in a social media post: "Initial results show promising neuron spike detection."
ever process occurred to do this preserved the original brain tissue so well that individual neurons can actually be seen using a scanning electron microscope.
It has been shown, for example, that exercise can change the hippocampus through a process called neurogenesis, where animals actually grow more neurons.
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