| 单词 | mossy fibre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmossy fibre mossy fibre n. [after Spanish fibras muscogas (S. Ramón y Cajal 1893 in Zeitschr. f. Wissensch. Zool. 56 638, 640); compare (in the same source) German moosartige Faser , Moosfaser , and also French fibre moussue (see quot. 1894).] Anatomy a type of thick, highly branched afferent nerve fibre found especially in the cerebellar cortex. ΚΠ 1894 S. Ramón y Cajal in Proc. Royal Soc. 55 460 Les fibres moussues. 1913 Cunningham's Text-bk. Anat. (ed. 4) 581 (caption) Moss fibres.] 1920 S. W. Ranson Anat. Nerv. Syst. xiii. 209 There are also two kinds of afferent fibers which enter the cortex from the white center, and are known as climbing and mossy fibers respectively. 1975 Nature 11 Sept. 86/1 Profuse branches of the granule cell dendrites curve around and encapsulate the expanded terminal of a mossy fibre, forming a tangled ball of dendrites and axons. 1990 Brain 113 103 Marr..hypothesized that the two main inputs to the Purkinje cells of the cerebellar cortex, the climbing and mossy fibres, provide distinctive signals in the establishment and maintenance of associative events. < as lemmas |
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