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/ˈɡæŋ.ɡli.ən/ · noun
An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber..
[T]he wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are generally known, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head.
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.
Use ganglion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ganglion means An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber..
Common synonyms include nucleus, ganglion cyst.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[T]he wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are generally known, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head.
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