nerve cell

neuron.

Origin of nerve cell

First recorded in 1855–60

A nerve-cell which thinks remembers thought—a nerve-cell which causes motion remembers motion.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. |Various
In every nerve-cell there is memory, and not only so, but there is memory in every organic element of the body.

British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV |Various
A nerve-cell from the outer rind of the great brain (cortex cerebri), much magnified.

Voice Production in Singing and Speaking |Wesley Mills
Every fiber of him, every drop of blood, every minute nerve-cell was crying out against the execution.

The Devil's Garden |W. B. Maxwell

Body of a nerve-cell of the spinal cord, specially stained so as to show the minute structure.

Voice Production in Singing and Speaking |Wesley Mills

nerve cell

another name for neurone

nerve cell

neuron

The body of a neuron without its axon and dendrites.

nerve cell

See neuron.