Neura

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Neuron \Neu"ron\, n.; pl. {Neura}. [NL., from Gr. ney^ron
     nerve.] (Anat.)
     1. The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis;
        myelencephalon. [obsolete] --B. G. Wilder.
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     2. (Cell Biology) The characteristic specialized cell that is
        part of the nervous system, serving to conduct electrical
        impulses to and from the brain, and also between other
        parts of the body, and composed of a main cell body, the
        axon, with a varying number of processes of varying
        length, the dendrites; a nerve cell. The movement and
        behavior of higher animals depends on the signals
        tranmsitted by such nerve cells.
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