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Example sentences for "nerve cells"

  • The axons which make up the optic nerve, or nerve of sight, are branches of nerve cells in the eye, and extend into the brain stem.

  • There are lots of nerve cells, billions of them.

  • Exhaustion of nerve cells is produced through too many and too vivid impressions being made upon the immature brain.

  • In the performance of its function the ear receives and transmits sound waves and also concentrates them upon a suitable exposure of nerve cells.

  • Almost to the present time, physiologists have described the nervous system as being made up of two kinds of structural elements which were called nerve cells and nerve fibers.

  • The thinking principle, the nous within us, is no doubt more than mere nerve action, but it can, apparently, not manifest its presence without motor nerve cells in healthy action.

  • We make two preparations, one of nerve fibres and of nerve cells of the poisoned frog, and, under the microscope, compare them carefully with an analogous one from the killed healthy frog.

  • Experiments in the psychological laboratories have shown that nerve cells shrivel up and lose their vitality under loss of sleep.

  • The white matter contains no nerve cells or dendrites.

  • It is true, indications of it may be seen in some of the earlier-formed epithelia, but of nerve cells, muscular cells, and many kinds of gland cells no distinct signs are yet visible.

  • These bundles are generally marked by the possession of nuclei, especially in their cortical parts, which become no doubt the nuclei of the nerve sheath, and, in the neighbourhood of the ganglia, of nerve cells.

  • We now know that the special activity of nerve cells is a form of functional metabolism, just as is the special activity of muscle cells or gland cells.

  • The nervous system is made up, then, of chains of nerve cells.

  • For instance, a layer near the choroid is made up of nerve cells arranged in innumerable cylinders called "rods and cones," and packed together not unlike the seeds of a sunflower.

  • Nerve cells grow, become active, and die, as do other cells.

  • Nerve cells, which may be regarded as the central organs of the nerve fibers, consist of masses of cell protoplasm, with a large nucleus and nucleolus.

  • Attention has been directed to the recognized diversities of nerve cells, which are unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar, on the hypothesis that these diversities may point to differences of function so great as to provide what is required.

  • A significant increase in RNA of nerve cells of the fifth to sixth cortical layers on the right side of the brain was observed.

  • The RNA of nerve cells in that part of the cortex, whose destruction destroys the ability to transfer handedness, was analyzed.

  • Nuclear RNA Changes of Nerve Cells During a Learning Experiment in Rats.

  • By this method quicker and more complete decolouration of the neuroglia, nerve cells, &c.

  • Microscopic scrutiny reveals that it is made up in part of nerve cells containing a pigment similar to that present in the cells of the retina, thus clinching the argument for its ancient function as an eye.

  • This grey matter forms collections of nerve cells, which are the centres of origin of several cranial nerves.

  • It contains two types of nerve cells, the small granule cells and the large granule cells.


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