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noun

Ganglion n. (pl. L. ganglia, E. ganglions)

(Anat.)

(a)

A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.

(b)

A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

(Med.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; called also weeping sinew.

Ganglion cell, a nerve cell.

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Etymology of 'Ganglion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... government. For at least three hundred years all the life of the nation has centred upon Paris; all the railways and all the great system of roads and most of the waterways of the north similarly have Paris for their nucleus. Now, this central ganglion of the whole French organism is but 120 miles from the frontier, ten days' easy marching. An enemy coming in from the north-east not only finds no natural obstacle in his way, but has Paris as nearly within his grasp as, say, Cologne is within ...

— A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase • Hilaire Belloc

... of isolation, dejection of the spirits, and abnormal exaltation of the powers of wit and ratiocination, without some considerable impairment, derangement, disturbance, or modification, of the psychical, motorial, and sensorial functions of the great cerebral ganglion. But it would be equally absurd to presuppose that these several functions can be disarranged for months, without more or less disorganisation of the medullary, or even of the cineritious, matter of the encephialon. Therefore—dissection ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... (Fig. 195; oe, oesophagus; ng, supra-oesophageal ganglion; n, nervous cord; ga, and g, genital organs; ms, band of muscles) is attained by means of a moult, as usual in the metamorphoses of insects. With the change of skin the larva entirely changes its form. So-called hypodermic cells are developed. The ...

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