ganglion

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.
    — [T]he wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are generally known, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head.
  2. Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.
    — The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
  3. A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.
  4. A benign cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule.

词形变化

ganglia plural ganglions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ciliary ganglion deganglionated gangliac ganglial gangliform ganglio- gangli- ganglionary ganglion cyst ganglionectomy ganglionic ganglionitis ganglionless ganglionopathy ganglionosis gasserian ganglion hemiganglion inferior cervical ganglion inferior ganglion interganglion intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell lumbar ganglion melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell middle cervical ganglion neuroganglion otic ganglion paraganglion petrosal ganglion photosensitive retinal ganglion cell phrenic ganglion pseudoganglion pterygopalatine ganglion semilunar ganglion spiral ganglion stellate ganglion submandibular ganglion superior cervical ganglion synganglion thoracic ganglion trigeminal ganglion vestibular ganglion

词源

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (gănglĭ́on)bor.
English ganglion
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (gănglĭ́on, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”).
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