neuron

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Neurons

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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, nerve). Doublet of nerve and sinew.

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neuron (plural neurons or neura)

  1. (cytology) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
    • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      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.
  2. (zoology) A nervure of an insect's wing.
  3. (artificial intelligence) an artificial neuron (mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network)

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Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, nerve).

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neuron m inan

  1. (cytology) neuron
    Synonym: nervová buňka

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  • neuron in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • neuron in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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neuron c (singular definite neuronen, plural indefinite neuroner)

  1. (cytology) neuron

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neuron n (plural neuronen or neurons)

  1. neuron

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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neuron

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron). Doublet of nerw.

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neuron m inan (related adjective neuronowy or neuronalny)

  1. (cytology, neuroanatomy) neuron (cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites)
    Synonym: komórka nerwowa

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  • neuron in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • neuron in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • neuron in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French neurone.

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neuron m (plural neuroni)

  1. neuron

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  • IPA(key): /neǔroːn/
  • Hyphenation: ne‧u‧ron

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neùrōn m (Cyrillic spelling неу̀ро̄н)

  1. neuron

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Swedish[edit]

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neuron c or n

  1. (cytology) a neuron
    Synonym: nervcell

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Common gender is much more common.

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Declension of neuron 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative neuron neuronen neuroner neuronerna
Genitive neurons neuronens neuroners neuronernas
Declension of neuron 
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Nominative neuron neuronet neuron neuronen
Genitive neurons neuronets neurons neuronens

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