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Webster 1913 Edition


Ganglion

Gan′gli-on

,
Noun.
;
pl. L.
Ganglia
(#)
, E.
Ganglions
(#)
.
[L.
ganglion
a sort of swelling or excrescence, a tumor under the skin, Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.
ganglion
.]
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
(b)
A node, or gland in the lymphatic system;
as, a lymphatic
ganglion
.
2.
(Med.)
A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; – called also
weeping sinew
.
Ganglion cell
,
a nerve cell. See Illust. under
Bipolar
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ganglion

GANG'LION

,
Noun.
In anatomy, a small circumscribed tumor, found in certain parts of the nervous system.
1.
In surgery, a movable tumor formed on the tendons, generally about the wrist.

Definition 2024


Ganglion

Ganglion

See also: ganglion

German

Noun

Ganglion n

  1. ganglion

ganglion

ganglion

See also: Ganglion

English

Noun

ganglion (plural ganglions or ganglia)

  1. (neuroanatomy)
    1. An encapsulated collection of nerve-cell bodies, located outside the brain and spinal cord.
    2. Any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia.
      • 2013 August 3, The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
        The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
  2. (by extension) A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.
  3. (pathology) A cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule; a ganglion cyst

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Czech

Noun

ganglion n

  1. ganglion
  2. ganglion cyst

Finnish

Noun

ganglion

  1. Genitive singular form of ganglio.

French

Noun

ganglion m (plural ganglions)

  1. ganglion

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