Examples from the web for nerve cell
- Scientists still don't understand what purpose the nerve cell activity serves so early in development.
- Shortly after that, the cells started to produce nerve cell-coating myelin.
- The relevant nerve cell is selected by specially designed software and is cut by the laser.
- Its researchers have turned them into a type of cell that produces the insulating sheath around a nerve cell.
- Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, a chemical that carries messages from nerve cell to nerve cell or other tissues.
- Conversely, when humans are subjected to high pressure, nerve cell membranes probably don't leak enough.
- The brain is continually trying to strike a balance between too much and too little nerve cell activity.
- Each nerve cell in the nose can sense more than one odor, but picks up the smell to a different degree.
- The synapse is the gap between those nerve cells and what one's nerve cell does to another is release signaling compounds.
- Damage to the covering of the nerve cell causes nerve signals to slow down.
British Dictionary definitions for nerve cell
nerve cell in Medicine
nerve cell n.
See neuron.
The body of a neuron without its axon and dendrites.