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
Yet, while mice are a favorite model animal for studying glaucoma, they have very few of the midget retinal ganglion cell counterparts.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
In contrast, they found 21 orthotypes of retinal ganglion cells, which exhibit greater variation among species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
It found people with Parkinson's had a thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and inner nuclear layer in the eye.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023
He is more like a ganglion on legs.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The striatum is part of the basal ganglia, a group of neuron clusters located deep in the brain.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
"A previous study showed that the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia were mostly deactivated under anesthesia, which we also observed, however, in awake states these areas are significantly activated."
From Science Daily ● May 31, 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
"Continuing research efforts to further understand the neurobiology of developmental language disorder, especially the role of the basal ganglia, could help the many children who are affected by these problems," concludes Ullman.
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
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
Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thing got right in among Lord Wetherby's highly sensitive ganglions like an earthquake.
From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
After peace had been signed he was sent into garrison at Toulon and Monaco, where an inflammation of the lymphatic ganglions of the neck necessitated an operation which left him deeply scarred for life.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel
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