cell body

noun

, Biology.

the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.

cell body

The portion of a neuron that contains the nucleus but does not incorporate the dendrites or axon.

First recorded in 1875–80

“It might be that if you can rescue the cell body [with neural stem cells], you can rescue that connection,” said Glass.

(A) Cell body of the parent bacillus unaltered in shape (Fig. 91, a).

Thus, by this first ergonomy, the nucleus became the vehicle of heredity and the cell-body the organ of adaptation.

Hence many cytologists regard the centrosoma as a secondary product of differentiation in the cell-body, not the nucleus.

From this cell body extends a tiny thread of living protoplasm.

In the cells of plants, in addition to the cell wall, the cell body and the cell juice require to be examined.

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