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Definition of Perikaryon

1. [n -KARYA]

Medical Definition of Perikaryon

1. Cell body surrounding nucleus of a neuron does not include axonal and dendritic processes. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perikaryon

Literary usage of Perikaryon

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1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"From the base often near its middle arises one large fibre—the axone fibre, which conducts impulses away from the perikaryon. The general appearance and ..."

2. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"From the perikaryon cytoplasmic processes are given off, some of which may be ... The external form of the neuron depends on the shape of the perikaryon and ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In some few cells the axone breaks up into branches in the immediate neighbourhood of its own perikaryon in the cortex. In most cases, however, ..."

4. The Nervous System and Its Conservation by Percy Goldthwait Stiles (1917)
"What follows is most important: axons are nearly always channels for the conveyance of impulses away from the perikaryon—dendrites are receptive in function ..."

5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The functions of the dendrites and perikaryon are both trophic and conductive. It is important to determine the relation between these two very different ..."

6. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"But it is to be remembered that two functions of great importance certainly belong to the perikaryon. In the first place it, even if the conductive process ..."

7. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Functions of th« perikaryon. — It may appear that our tendency is to attribute the distinctive characters of reflex-arc conduction so liberally to the ..."

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