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n. - An encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons.

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  • (A ganglion is a mass of nervous matter including nerve cells.)
  • It contains a group of nerve cells termed the ganglion habenulæ.
  • But at the lumbar ganglion, which is the center of separate identity, the knowledge is of a different mode, though the term is the same.
  • On the dorsal root of each spinal nerve is a small ganglion which is named, from its position, the
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