cell body
Americannoun
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the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.
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The portion of a neuron that contains the nucleus but does not incorporate the dendrites or axon.
Etymology
Origin of cell body
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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And hundreds of centrioles, intended for eventual construction of cilia at the cell surface, got stuck in the cell body.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
Among neurons, in contrast, the fusion happened farther away from the cell body, at long, thin extensions known as dendrites and axons, which are critical for cell-cell communication.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 6, 2023
When lung cells fused, only the main parts of the cell body connected to each other.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 6, 2023
Indeed, every 3-cm increase in axon length is calculated to add more than double the volume of the neuronal cell body to the axon each day.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2022
In other cases the cell substance acquires peculiar functions, so that what seems to be the formed material is really a modified cell body and is still active and alive.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)
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