brain cell

/breɪn sɛl/
/breɪn sɛl/
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Other forms: brain cells

Definitions of brain cell
  1. noun
    a nerve cell in the brain
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    types:
    Golgi cell, Golgi's cell
    a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter
    Purkinje cell
    a large densely branching neuron that is the characteristic cell of the cerebellar cortex
    type of:
    nerve cell, neuron
    a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses
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