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perikarya

perikarya is the plural of perikaryon.

Meaning of perikaryon

Noun

perikaryon (plural perikaryons or perikarya)

  1. The cell body of a neuron or of an odontoblast.

Questions about perikarya

What is perikarya the plural of?
Perikarya is the plural of perikaryon.

Words near perikarya in the dictionary

  1. perijoves
  2. perijunction
  3. perijunctional
  4. perikaretosis
  5. perikarion
  6. perikarya
  7. perikaryal
  8. perikaryon
  9. perikaryonic
  10. perikaryons
  11. perikaryoplasm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perikarya (page history and authors); perikaryon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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