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Definition of Perikarya
1. perikaryon [n] - See also: perikaryon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perikarya
Literary usage of Perikarya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Functional significance of the neural perikarya. Reflexes of double-sign.
Reflexes of successive double-sign, and of simultaneous double-sign. ..."
2. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"is no good evidence that neuroglia is concerned directly in nervous conduction
at all. As to perikarya (nerve-cell bodies) the experiment of ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... spinal ganglion at the same speed as along г he other parts of the nerve
trunk — that is, that it suffers no delay in transit through the perikarya of ..."
4. The Nervous System and Its Conservation by Percy Goldthwait Stiles (1917)
"One interesting function of the perikarya remains undisputed. This is the
responsibility for the maintenance of normal nutrition through all the processes ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... and arrangement of the neurones in a particle of cortical grey matter are
shown in fig. 15, above. The apices of the pyramidal perikarya are turned '. ..."
6. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The visual cells are bipolar elements, whose perikarya are located in the ...
These latter elements have their perikarya in the inner nuclear layer and ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The apices of the pyramidal perikarya are turned towards the free surface of the
cortex. The figure as interpreted in terms of functional conduction means ..."
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