golgi cell

English Thesaurus

1. a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter (noun.body)

hypernym	:	brain cell,
definition	:	a nerve cell in the brain (noun.body)

part meronym	:	cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex, pallium,
definition	:	the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum (noun.body)

part meronym	:	medulla spinalis, spinal cord,
definition	:	a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region (noun.body)