ganglion
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If short-wavelength light activates the ganglion cells, they signal to the internal clock that it is daytime.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
The electrical nerve impulses are finally transmitted to ganglion cells in the retina and then via the optic nerve to the visual cortex in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
However, the stimulation of the light-sensitive ganglion cells was the same in all three conditions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
These cell types make up only 2% to 4% of all ganglion cells in mice, whereas 90% of retinal ganglion cells are midget cells in humans.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
He is more like a ganglion on legs.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
They found that DRN serotonin stimulation causes activation of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, brain areas involved in many cognitive functions.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024
Using mouse antibodies that glom on to proteasomes, and other methods, the investigators found the proteasomes on the surface of neurons in the spinal cord, dorsal root ganglia, sciatic nerve and peripheral nerves innervating skin.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
The basal ganglia receives signals from the motor cortex as skaters leap and twirl in the air.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
The scientists found that abnormalities occurred specifically in the anterior neostriatum within the basal ganglia, a structure found deep in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024
“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
They have a brain that’s wrapped around their esophagus, ganglions on every one of their little suckers.
From Slate ● May 31, 2017
Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The brain of the vertebrata is merely an expansion of one of the ganglions of the nervous cord of the mollusca and crustacea.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
I tell you, Comrade Jackson, for the moment it reduced my delicately vibrating ganglions to a mere frazzle.
From Psmith in the City by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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