Definition of Gangliate

1. a. Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

Definition of Gangliate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Gangliate

1. Gangliated Having ganglia. Synonym: ganglionated. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gangliate

ganglia cardiaca
ganglia coeliaca
ganglia intermedia
ganglia lumbalia
ganglia of autonomic plexuses
ganglia of sympathetic trunk
ganglia pelvina
ganglia phrenica
ganglia plexuum autonomicorum
ganglia renalia
ganglia sacralia
ganglia thoracica
ganglia trunci sympathici
ganglial
gangliar
gangliate (current term)
gangliated
gangliated cord
gangliated nerve
gangliectomies
gangliectomy
ganglier
gangliest
gangliform
gangliitis
ganglike
gangline
ganglines
gangliness
gangling

Literary usage of Gangliate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"same as gangliate. In some cases these lateral trunks exhibit ganglionic ... or gangliate nervous system, and not a cere- brospinal nervous system : applied ..."

2. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate by Richard Owen, William White Cooper (1843)
"But before proceeding to the great primary group of hetero- gangliate animals, to which we are thus conducted, it will be necessary first to consider the ..."

3. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"... to the simpler gangliate types. In these, as in still lower animals and in most plants, the tendency for separate energizing stimuli to combine their ..."

4. The Human Brain; Its Structure, Physiology and Diseases: With a Description by Samuel Solly (1847)
"... the nervous system, to which, as being the most simple, it will be desirable first to direct our attention, is taken from the Homo-gangliate division. ..."

5. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1854)
"... may be considered as a distinct brain of the hetero- gangliate form." They are freely distributed throughout the body, but connected with each other by ..."

6. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (1876)
"The homo- gangliate character assigned to insects, in common with other divisions of articulata, admits indeed of considerable variation ; but the infinite ..."

7. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1879)
"... serially multi-gangliate nervous centres ; (u) the presence of cilia and of segmental organs ; (c) and in the nature of the larvae which are set free, ..."

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