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neuron (or nerve cell or neurone)

Term: neuron (or nerve cell or neurone)

Origin:

Ancient Greek ?????/nevra (=cutgut) (?????? (?>?)/nearon (=young) because catgut were made from intestines of young animals.

Coined: by the German scientist Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz in 1891

Definition:

functional unit of the nervous system which consists of a cell body or soma, dendrites and axon. Neuron is a specialised cel responsible for information transmission in nervous system.

Runon derivatives :

nerve, nervous, neuroglia, neurolemma, neuritis, neuroblast, neurobiology, neuroma, neuromuscular, neuropathology, neuropathy, neuropeptide, neurotoxicity, neurotransmitter

comments:

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz also coined the term "chromosome"

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