Definition of "nerve cell" [nerve cell]

• See neuron. (noun)
• The body of a neuron without its axon and dendrites. (noun)

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• "Dr.W. L. Worcester's microscopic examination showed rather unusual degrees of nerve cell pigmentation (precentral and paracentral)."
• "Two of the cases showed cell-losses more marked in suprastellate layers; in the third there was universal nerve cell destruction, with active satellitosis caught in process."
• "Dr.W. L. Worcester's microscopic examination showed acute nerve cell changes probably of the type of axonal reactions."