neuron
nounUS /ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/ · UK /ˈnjʊəɹɒn/
Etymology From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”), doublet of nerve and sinew. By surface analysis, neuro- + -on.
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Biology, Cytology, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
- 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.2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
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A mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network.
Artificial intelligence
- Synonyms
- neuron
- Derived terms
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algoneuron, antimirror neuron, antineuron, clusteron, get someone's neurons firing, input neuron, interneuron, Jennifer Aniston neuron, medium spiny neuron, mirror neuron, motor neuron, motor neuron disease, multineuron, neuron activation, neuronal, neuronally, neuronic, neuronitis, neuronlike, neuronopathic, neuronopathy, neuronophage, neuronophagia, neuronophagy, paraneuron, Purkinje neuron, pyramidal neuron, rosehip neuron, sensory neuron, spindle neuron, spiny projection neuron, von Economo neuron- Hypernyms
- cell