HyperDic: brain_cell

English > 1 sense of the expression brain cell:
NOUNbodybrain cella nerve cell in the brain
English > brain cell: 1 sense > noun 1, body
MeaningA nerve cell in the brain.
Part ofbrain, encephalonThat part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers
NarrowerGolgi's cell, Golgi cellA 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 cellA large densely branching neuron that is the characteristic cell of the cerebellar cortex
Broadernerve cell, neuronA cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses
Spanishcélula cerebral
Catalancèl·lula cerebral

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