ganglion

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gan·gli·on /ˈɡæŋɡliən/ noun [countable] technical  1. MIa painful raised area of skin that is full of liquid, often on the back of your wrist 腱鞘囊肿2. HBa mass of nerve cells 神经节

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ganglion• Plus what had now turned out to be a ganglion.• Messages from thousands of photoreceptors are funneled into each ganglion cell, except some cancel out the actions of others.• Typically, a small triangular frontal ganglion lies above the oesophagus, a short distance in front of the brain.• We can now begin to make some sense of the differences between the three classes of ganglion cells.• From this function, the number of ganglion cells found in any specified patch of the retina may be evaluated numerically.• In plexuses with amyloid deposits, some residual ganglion cells showed degenerative changes.• These are projected on to the surface of the ganglion cell density function in the upper part of the figure.• Figure 8 illustrates one of these ganglion cells.Origin ganglion (1600-1700) Late Latin Greek

gan·gli·on nounChineseSyllable  

skin painful of is raised area Corpus a that full

ganglion
gan‧gli‧on /ˈɡæŋɡliən/ noun [countable] technical1. a painful raised area of skin that is full of liquid, often on the back of your wrist
2. a mass of nerve cells

gan·glionBrE /ˈɡæŋɡliən/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡæŋɡliən/ 🔊 noun (

plural

gan·glia BrE /ˈɡæŋɡliə/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈɡæŋɡliə/ 🔊 ) (medical 医学) a mass of nerve cells 神经节a swelling in a tendon, often at the back of the hand 腱鞘囊肿（经常出现在手背）