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Neuron - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Neuron : (noun)
1: a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses [syn: nerve
cell]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Neuron : \Neu"ron\, n.; pl. Neura. [NL., from Gr. ney^ron
nerve.] (Anat.)
The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis;
myelencephalon.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Neuron : Neuron: A motor neurons or motoneurons) and to other neurons. A neuron may receive electrical input signals from sensory cells (called sensory neurons) and from other neurons. A neuron
that simply signals another neuron is called an interneuron.
The word "neuron" comes straight from the Greek meaning "a sinew, synapse ." Sherrington shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1932 with Lord Edgar Douglas Adrian of Cambridge
University for "their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons."
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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