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brain cell

DEFINITIONS OF: brain cell

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n a nerve cell in the brain

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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