[ずいしょう, zuishou] (n) myelin sheath (around the axon of a neuron) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Neuron \Neu"ron\, n.; pl. {Neura}. [NL., from Gr. ney^ron
nerve.] (Anat.)
1. The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis;
myelencephalon. [obsolete] --B. G. Wilder.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Cell Biology) The characteristic specialized cell that is
part of the nervous system, serving to conduct electrical
impulses to and from the brain, and also between other
parts of the body, and composed of a main cell body, the
axon, with a varying number of processes of varying
length, the dendrites; a nerve cell. The movement and
behavior of higher animals depends on the signals
tranmsitted by such nerve cells.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
neuron
n 1: a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses [syn:
{nerve cell}, {neuron}]
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Neuron /nɔirɔn/
neuron
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