ganglion
See also: Ganglion
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (ganglíon, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”).
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Noun edit
ganglion (plural ganglia or ganglions)
- (neuroanatomy)
- An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.
- Hyponyms: autonomic ganglion, cervical ganglion, dorsal root ganglion, Gasserian ganglion, geniculate ganglion, Meckel's ganglion, spinal ganglion
- 1871, Charles Darwin, “On the Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part I (On the Descent of Man), page 145:
- [T]he wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are generally known, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head.
- Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.
- Synonym: nucleus
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- 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.
- An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.
- (transferred sense) A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.
- (pathology) A benign cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule.
- Synonym: ganglion cyst
Derived terms edit
- ciliary ganglion
- gangliac
- ganglial
- ganglio-, gangli-
- ganglionary
- ganglion cyst
- ganglionectomy
- ganglionic
- ganglionitis
- ganglionless
- ganglionopathy
- ganglionosis
- gasserian ganglion
- hemiganglion
- inferior cervical ganglion
- inferior ganglion
- interganglion
- intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
- lumbar ganglion
- melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
- middle cervical ganglion
- neuroganglion
- otic ganglion
- paraganglion
- petrosal ganglion
- photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
- phrenic ganglion
- pseudoganglion
- pterygopalatine ganglion
- semilunar ganglion
- spiral ganglion
- stellate ganglion
- submandibular ganglion
- superior cervical ganglion
- synganglion
- thoracic ganglion
- trigeminal ganglion
- vestibular ganglion
Translations edit
collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain
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centre of power or authority
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ganglion cyst — see ganglion cyst
References edit
- “ganglion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “ganglion”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Czech edit
Noun edit
ganglion n
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Finnish edit
Noun edit
ganglion
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ganglion m (plural ganglions)
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “ganglion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
ganglion (plural gangliones)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ganglion.
Noun edit
ganglion m (plural ganglioni)
Declension edit
Declension of ganglion
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) ganglion | ganglionul | (niște) ganglioni | ganglionii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) ganglion | ganglionului | (unor) ganglioni | ganglionilor |
| vocative | ganglionule | ganglionilor | ||