Definitions for ganglion

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ganglion gan·gli·on

Spelling: [gang-glee-uh n]

IPA: /ˈgæŋ gli ən/

Ganglion is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in ganglion (aggilnno).

Definitions for ganglion

noun

1. Anatomy. a mass of nerve tissue existing outside the central nervous system. any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia.
2. Pathology. a cyst or enlargement in connection with the sheath of a tendon, usually at the wrist.
3. a center of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.

Origin of ganglion

1675-85; Late Latin: a type of swelling Greek gánglion a tumor under the skin, on or near a tendon

Examples for ganglion

A cinder enters the eye, the report reaches a ganglion, a motor impulse is sent forth, and the eyelid closes.

They have no brain, but a ganglion of nerves, a whitish substance situated near their mouths.

From the ganglion of the shoulders, also, the child breathes and his heart beats.

The nerves connected with this ganglion were long and slender.

The junction is from the first at some little distance from the ganglion.

It forms a continuation of the root rather than of the ganglion.

It is formed of a superficial layer of longitudinal nervous fibres, and a central core of ganglion cells.

The interruption coming at such a moment jarred every ganglion in his body.

Fibers which leave the ganglion laterally from ventral cells.

The nerves of the mouth and its tentacles originate in the first ganglion, those of the respiratory organs in the second.