nerve cell
15
3.4
- noun
- /nɜrv sɛl/
- Specialized
:
neurona
- nerve cell are crucial for forming connections in the brain during the development of the nervous system.
- nerve cells and neurons
- nerve cells of the brain
- nerve cells relay messages
You can tell a nerve cell from a muscle cell.
- You can tell a nerve cell from a muscle cell.
- Yes, there are neurons, transmitters, nerve cells, billions of them.
- Well, if a pregnant sheep eats that, it prevents the nerve cells from being properly stimulated.
- And this is there's a little nucleus, a little collection of nerve cells in your brain.
- But picking up the signals from large numbers of individual nerve cells has never really been feasible.
- Maybe some of the nerve cells, the neurons there are severed, OK, or crushed.
- So the nerve cells from your ears to your brain can also be stimulated.
- And that's because nerve cells and other cells in the brain have a external layer.
- This is what's causing the problem, but that we can see the cause over time with these sort of proteins being stuck in these nerve cells.
Examples
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When the body senses pain following an injury or surgery, specialized nerve cells relay "pain" messages to the spinal cord and brain.
Academic text (2011) -
nerve cell transmit signals throughout the body to facilitate communication between different systems.
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And there are different types of signals that nerve cells can send.
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You can tell a nerve cell from a muscle cell.
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There are billions of nerve cells in the human brain.
Academic text (1996) -
When a child learns something new, physical and chemical changes happen in the nerve cells of the brain.
Academic text (2005) -
The connections between nerve cells are constantly being modified.
Fiction book (2000) -
During infancy, excess unused nerve cells die off, and those that are frequently used develop.
Academic text (2005) -
The anterior commissure is a structure of nerve cells connecting the left and right hemispheres.
Academic text (1995) -
Damage to nerve cell can impair motor functions and lead to neurological disorders.
Synonyms
98
4.3
A nerve cell that sends messages in the body
46
2.8
A cell in the brain that sends and receives messages
How Specialized
- Specialized
2
3.9
- Specialized
- Specialized
15
3.4
- Specialized
- Specialized
917
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: a 'nerve cell' is a 'cell' associated with 'nerve' (the nervous system), so a learner who knows 'nerve' and 'cell' can infer it is a cell that transmits nerve impulses. Noun+noun compounding like this is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern, making the meaning immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Nerve cell comes from the picture of a tiny cell that works like a nerve wire, carrying messages around the body like a small messenger. So it means 'a cell that sends signals'.