| 单词 | nerve cell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnerve cell nerve cell n. Anatomy †(a) the cell body of a neuron (obsolete); (b) a neuron. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell nerve cell1840 neurocyte1890 neuron1891 1840 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 130 608 (note) The primary nerve-cells have not been with certainty observed. 1858 G. H. Lewes Let. 19 July in G. S. Haight George Eliot Lett. (1954) II. 469 It was so very amusing to find myself thinking of ‘nerve cells’ amid the grand mountains, and of physiological processes on the shores of a lake. 1893 Brain 16 135 It will therefore be understood that by the term ‘nerve-cell’ I shall denote not only, as has hitherto for the most part been the case, the body of the cell as the part immediately enclosing the nucleus, but all the several processes of the cell. 1943 O. S. Strong & A. Elwyn Human Neuroanat. iii. 28/1 The significance of the Nissl stain..lies in the fact that..each type of nerve cell always presents the same appearance. 1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) ix. 229 Nerve cells or neurones are specialised for receiving and transmitting electrical signals. < as lemmas |
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