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nerve cells

nerve cells is the plural of nerve cell.

Meaning of nerve cell

Noun

nerve cell (plural nerve cells)

  1. A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.
    • 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...2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847

Questions about nerve cells

What is nerve cells the plural of?
Nerve cells is the plural of nerve cell.

Words near nerve cells in the dictionary

  1. nervcited
  2. nerve
  3. nerve agent
  4. nerve agents
  5. nerve cell
  6. nerve cells
  7. nerve center
  8. nerve centers
  9. nerve centre
  10. nerve centres
  11. nerve cord

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