OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13607

neuron

/ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
neurona
A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
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…
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