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neurone

neurone is the alternative spelling of neuron.

Meaning of neuron

Noun

neuron (plural neurons or neura)

  1. A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
    • 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
  2. A nervure of an insect's wing.
  3. (artificial intelligence) A mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network.

Forms of neurone

pluralneurones

Phrases with neurone

Questions about neurone

What is neurone the alternative spelling of?
Neurone is the alternative spelling of neuron.

Words near neurone in the dictionary

  1. neuronavigate
  2. neuronavigated
  3. neuronavigating
  4. neuronavigation
  5. neuronavigational
  6. neurone
  7. neuroneogenesis
  8. neurones
  9. neuronic
  10. neuronitis
  11. neuronlike

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