ganglion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.
3. isim A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.
4. isim A benign cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule.