NOUN | body | brain cell | a nerve cell in the brain |
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Meaning | A nerve cell in the brain. | |
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Part of | brain, encephalon | That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers |
Narrower | Golgi's cell, Golgi cell | A neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter |
Purkinje cell | A large densely branching neuron that is the characteristic cell of the cerebellar cortex | |
Broader | nerve cell, neuron | A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses |
Spanish | célula cerebral | |
Catalan | cèl·lula cerebral |
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