The plural of ganglion is ganglia.
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Ganglion
//ˈɡæŋ.ɡli.ən//
Synonyms for "ganglion" (32 found)
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31 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عُقْدَة عَصَبِيَّة noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Catalan
1 entries- gangli noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 中心 noun (centre of power or authority)
- 神經節 /神经节 noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Czech
3 entries- ganglie noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
- ganglion noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
- nervová uzlina noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Dutch
2 entries- ganglion noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
- zenuwknoop noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Esperanto
1 entries- ganglio noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Finnish
3 entries- ganglio noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
- hermokeskus noun (centre of power or authority)
- hermosolmu noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
French
1 entries- ganglion noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Galician
1 entries- ganglio noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Georgian
1 entries- ნერვული კვანძი noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
German
3 entries- Ganglion noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
- Kopf noun (centre of power or authority)
- Nervenknoten noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Ido
1 entries- gangliono noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Indonesian
1 entries- ganglion noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Japanese
1 entries- 神経節 noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Kazakh
1 entries- жүйке түйіні noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Latin
1 entries- ganglion noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- girêk noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Persian
1 entries- گانگلیون noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Polish
1 entries- zwój nerwowy noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Romanian
1 entries- ganglion noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Russian
1 entries- га́нглий noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Spanish
1 entries- ganglio noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Turkish
1 entries- gangliyon noun (collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain)
Sample sentences
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In the past, there were certain traditions that could not be avoided. Thus, to eat kidney, children were obliged, the very first time, to nibble it on their knees on their fathers' shins. Otherwise, it was said that there was a risk that a ganglion would appear on the child's neck or face.
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They've created a prosthetic device with an encoder that mimics the neural language or pulses that are normally sent from the retina's ganglion cells to the brain where it is deciphered and perceived as imagery.
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I have a ganglion in my right groin.
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