In the pit of the stomach is that great central web of nerves called the ganglions; thence they affect the head and the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

Certain accumulations of nerve-cells called ganglions (ganglia) are to be found scattered throughout the structure of animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference

As DCCs were originally found in culture, we thought it logical to search for DCCs in more primitive neuronal systems than the brain, such as ganglions of the lobster stomatogastric system.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The zeal of the folk dance sizzles in his nervous ganglions, or wherever fanaticism does sizzle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Fool]

Regan – I see that the link says that ganglions are simply lumps under the skin containing fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [What. The. Hell? « The Graveyard] Reference

'There's six million quid's worth in that stable,' I said slowly; and felt the germ of an idea lurch as it sometimes did across the ganglions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonecrack]

In the material organism of man, the great nerve-centers -- the brain, the spinal cord, and the ganglions -- appear to act the part of fixed magnets, charged with the electro-vital fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference

Lord Wetherby's highly sensitive ganglions like an earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uneasy Money] Reference

His ganglions were big, as was the case in all great preachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference

Such sentiments are a proof of magnificent ganglions in a perfect state of order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

Twenty ganglions per sample were pooled in 1 ml buffered crab saline solution (pH 7.6).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Baringer JR and Swoveland P (1973) Recovery of herpes simplex virus from human trigeminal ganglions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

I was looking for a bit of the overwrought soul and the quivering ganglions, if you know what I mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories] Reference

Through the narrow breach in the throat the cerebral ganglions are reached and immediate death ensues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

The significance of this sudden inertia is forced upon me: the Philanthus has stabbed the cervical ganglions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

The sting must therefore pierce the cervical ganglions; the centre of innervation upon which the rest of the organism is dependent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

And the prohibition as to letters had so severely shaken her nerve ganglions that she had been forced to seek the strengthening air of an expensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of Ambition] Reference

But there were peduncles and ventricles, arches, columns, strata, ganglions, and fibres of all kinds, and the foramen of Pacchioni and the "body" of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

Keratinocytes showed orders of magnitudes lower TRPV1 mRNA level than sensory ganglions, the bona fide therapeutic targets in human pain management.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Similarly, bodily habits, like feeling hunger or being insensible to it, appear to have their origin in those ganglions and not in any sort of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Sister] Reference

Could it be, as many of his nobles held, that the old monarch's hump was his sensorium and source of strength; full of nerves, muscles, ganglions and tendons?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference

The nervous matter is in them also collected into ganglions; but these are no longer symmetrically disposed along a main line, but are unequally scattered throughout the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference

And yet it does sometimes seem that the nerves and ganglions in the small of the back in the commercial metropolis act automatically and without any visible intervention of intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

The reflections from the sensory ganglions at the base of the brain may be said to form the second range of nervous action in man, which, in its special character, is of the most important kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference

A series of ganglions, arranged in the form of a necklace along the whole length of the body, set in motion the muscular system of the rings, each of which possesses its local centre of impulsion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference

After peace had been signed he was sent into garrison at Toulon and Monaco, where an inflammation of the lymphatic ganglions of the neck necessitated an operation which left him deeply scarred for life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference

But we also, as might be expected, meet with higher and peculiar centres of such action in what are called the sensory ganglions, collected at the base of the brain, and especially in the cerebrum itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference

It has its ganglions and its nerves to itself, which are put into communication with the brain by some threads strayed among his own, but which are not under its orders, and which treat with it on equal terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference

The mind can only influence directly the sensory ganglions, the sensations which are the appropriate expression of their action again acting upon the lower ganglionic centres concerned in the processes in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference

I'm becoming a mere bundle of quivering ganglions. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Among the Chickens] Reference

"It all centers on the remote controlling of the optical switches that drive the commercial ganglions of the Box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mocking Program]

Your ganglions are still vibrating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psmith in the City] Reference

What are the ganglions (ganglia) for?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Health] Reference

These ganglions are the great seat of sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference