neuron

[ noor-on, nyoor- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.

neuron

/ nr′ŏn′ /

A cell of the nervous system. Neurons typically consist of a cell body, which contains a nucleus and receives incoming nerve impulses, and an axon, which carries impulses away from the cell body.
Also called nerve cell

neu·ron·al [noor, -, uh, -nl, nyoor, -, n, oo, -, rohn, -l, ny, oo, -], adjective

Origin of neuron¹

First recorded in 1880–85, neuron is from the Greek word neûron sinew, cord, nerve

Aren't all facts, at the neuron and synapse level, really the same?

Hawking, 71, has been suffering from the debilitating motor neuron disease ALS for half a century.

The current issue of Neuron features a new study on selective memory erasure.

These are transferred from neuron to neuron through the synapse.

Even though the peripheral neuron may be suffering to some extent, this is true.

The contact of the axon of one neuron with the dendrons of another is called a synapse.

That is not a loss of memory but a failure of neuron connections.

Every efferent neuron in his system carried the message full power.

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