neuron
A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
Other meanings
A nervure of an insect's wing.
A mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network.
Synonyms
- nerve cell
A kind of
- vegetative cell
Kinds of neuron
- brain cell
- motor neuron
- sensory neuron
Related words
- algoneuron
- antineuron
- clusteron
- multineuron
- neuronitis
- neuronlike
- neuronopathic
- neuronopathy
- neuronophage
- neuronophagia
- neuronophagy
- paraneuron
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "νεῦρον" (nerve).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “neuron” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.