It contains flight muscles, a compound heart, and nerve cells called ganglia and trachioles. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This consists of numerous small nerve centers arranged in oval masses varying greatly in size, called ganglia or knots. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
A result, some of the 'ganglia' (these are like junction boxes of nerves) become inflamed, as does the skin in the area those nerves serve. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The two ganglia are also united directly by fibers. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
These masses are called especially the sympathetic ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The ganglia of our economic life seemed struck with mortal disease. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
The number of ganglia in each of these chains is about twenty-four. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
The ganglia are connected with the inferior roots of the spinal nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
B. CARSON: The patient has multiple lesions in the basal ganglia, in the. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2001] Reference
These ganglia have the power to maintain movements in their respective organs. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference
Optic ganglia: are at the sides of the procerebrum and innervate the compound eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
These reflexes make their appearance before any ganglia have become differentiated. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference
To some extent, also, axons pass through ganglia with which they make no connection. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
The nerve cells were supposed to form the ganglia and the fibers to form the nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
ROBERT HALEY, SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: What's of interest here is the basil ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2003] Reference
In various places in the substance of the heart are masses of nerve matter, called ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
And as to the nervous system, the only parts really necessary to life are a few small ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
For example, in the basil ganglia, the diseases are Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2003] Reference
The side-by-side arrangement of the neurons shows clearly the structure of the ganglia and nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
The former appears to be connected with the restraining ganglia; the latter with the exciting ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
A double chain of nervous ganglia, situated chiefly in front of, and on each side of, the spinal column. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Fifteen years of independence had caused the accretion of wonderfully few ganglia on this primeval structure. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
Moreover, all the great central ganglia, which give rise to movements in the limbs, were also eternally at rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Running along each side of the spine, from the base of the skull to the coccyx, is a chain of nerve knots, or ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
It is a mass of white fibers, with cells of gray matter sprinkled on the outside, or lodged here and there in ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
What we know is that the basal ganglia, an evolutionarily ancient set of brain areas, are critical for learning habits. From Wordnik.com. [How Habits Can Make Or Break Us] Reference
A tangle of wires intertwined behind the entire mess like trailing ganglia or wet hair resolving itself into dry pulpy knots. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Crackle] Reference
The dorsal-root divisions, of the fibers of di-axonic neurons, the cell-bodies of which form the dorsal-root ganglia (Fig. 135). From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
The cell-bodies of the excitant fibers are found in the sympathetic ganglia, but fibers from the bulb connect with and control them. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Everything an earthworm does is controlled by the cells grouped in these ganglia, or scattered along the intervening connecting cords. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
Prof. Preyer considered himself justified in concluding from this that ganglia are not essential for the liberation of reflex actions. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference
The neurons in the brain and spinal cord also lie side by side, but their arrangement is more complex than that in the nerves and ganglia. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
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