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ganglion

[gang-glee-uhn] / ˈgæŋ gli ən /


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Specialised ganglion cells are significantly involved in this process, which -- like the cones and rods -- are sensitive to light and react particularly strongly to short-wavelength light at a wavelength of around 490 nanometres.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2023

These mutants have a genetic defect that prevents retinal ganglion cells from forming.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 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

Doctors sometimes use anesthetic medications to block the sphenopalatine ganglion as a treatment for migraine.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

He is more like a ganglion on legs.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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