ganglion
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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
If short-wavelength light activates the ganglion cells, they signal to the internal clock that it is daytime.
From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 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
Q: In his book “Migraine,” Dr. Oliver Sacks says that when migraines develop, they nearly always increase nerve activity first in the sphenopalatine ganglion, a cluster of nerves located at the top of the throat.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023
You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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