GANGLION (ganglia)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ganglia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ganglion mean? 

• GANGLION (noun)
  The noun GANGLION has 1 sense:

1. an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons

  Familiarity information: GANGLION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GANGLION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("ganglion" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ganglion"):

autonomic ganglion (any of the ganglia of the autonomic system whose unmyelinated fibers innervate the internal organs)

basal ganglion (any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement)

Holonyms ("ganglion" is a part of...):

nervous system; systema nervosum (the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells)

 Context examples 

A neuroepithelial neoplasm comprised of neoplastic ganglion cells and neoplastic glial cells, in which the malignancy status has not been established.

(Ganglioglioma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It was only upon the third day that the ganglia ran down and the dreadful things were still.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A malignant neoplasm characterized by the presence of neuroblastic and ganglion cells and a stroma with Schwannian differentiation.

(Ganglioneuroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A well differentiated, slow growing neuroepithelial neoplasm composed of neoplastic, mature ganglion cells and neoplastic glial cells.

(Ganglioglioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

A well differentiated, slow growing neuroepithelial neoplasm composed of neoplastic, mature ganglion cells.

(Gangliocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

They are found in the adrenal glands or in groups of nerve cells called ganglia.

(Chromaffin cell, NCI Dictionary)

Ganglion with sensory function within the vertebral column.

(Dorsal Root Ganglion, NCI Thesaurus)

Sensory ganglia located on the dorsal spinal roots within the vertebral column.

(Dorsal Root Ganglion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings/CDISC)

Histologic features include spindle cell proliferation (resembling a neurofibroma) and the presence of large ganglion cells.

(Ganglioneuroma, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding indicating the presence of large ganglion cells, neural cellular infiltrates and a stroma with Schwannian differentiation in a neoplastic tissue specimen.

(Ganglioneuroma Component Present, NCI Thesaurus)