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nerve cell en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.
   • The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

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Translations (39)

sv neuron (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · fr cellule nerveuse (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · cmn 神經細胞 /神经细胞 (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · pt neurônio (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · de Nervenzelle (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ga néarchill (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ja 神経細胞 (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ar عَصْبُون (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · de Neuron (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · tr sinir hücresi (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · hu idegsejt (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · uk нерво́ва кліти́на (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · tr nöron (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · kmr xaneya demar (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ru не́рвная кле́тка (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · fr neurone (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · da nervecelle (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · nl zenuwcel (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · sk nervová bunka (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · kmr damarexane (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · es neurona (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · nl neuron (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · pt neurónio (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · nb nervecelle (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · hi तंत्रिकोशिका (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ro celulă nervoasă (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · da neuron (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · sk neurón (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ru нейро́н (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · mi pūtau io (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · vi tế bào thần kinh (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · nn nervecelle (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · fi hermosolu (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ko 신경 세포 (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · vo nevasiül (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ar خَلِيَّة عَصَبِيَّة (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ca neurona (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · sv nervcell (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron) · ca cèl·lula nerviosa (cell of the nervous system — see also neuron)