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nerve cell

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.

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Examples

“The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work⟳. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

nerve center nerve centre nerve cord nerve ending nerve fiber nerve fibre

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