How to Use ganglion in a Sentence

ganglion

noun
  • The ganglion cells then send the signals via the optic nerve to the brain.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
  • Each dark band is a ganglion, which would have controlled a single pair of legs.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2016
  • But their eyes still have the ganglion cells that route these signals to the brain via the optic nerve.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2021
  • The technique, known as a stellate ganglion block, has been used for decades to treat all sorts of pain conditions.
    — Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Retinal ganglion cells that take up the gene can then respond to red light projected into the eye.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2019
  • There are treatments that may help, such as smell training or a procedure known as a stellate ganglion block.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Fewer than 5 percent of the neurons, called retinal ganglion cells, grew back.
    — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 2 July 2018
  • The most avid advocates for the stellate ganglion block are Liu’s patients.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The team focused specifically on neurons at the back of the eye called retinal ganglion cells.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
  • But in today’s arthropods like insects, each segment has a neural center called a ganglion.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2022
  • Something that tickles the ganglions and charges you up to make it across the finish line to Labor Day?
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • So, the researchers damaged the optic nerve, then activated the three stem cell genes in the retinal ganglion cells.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The chip electrically stimulates the retina so ganglion cells can pick up the images.
    — Rachel Metz, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2006
  • Our bodies could then invest the surplus energy this saved into ganglia rather than guts, into frontal lobes instead of food.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Nerve blocks, which pinpoint groups of nerves (a plexus or ganglion), can be administered to block pain receptors and reset function.
    — Dr. Patricia Richard, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
  • With oral herpes, HSV-1 hangs out in the trigeminal ganglion, a nerve cluster in your skull.
    — Becky Little, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Recall that the wasp's first sting goes into the first thoracic ganglion, paralyzing the front legs during the initial attack.
    — Kenneth C. Catania, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Researchers say that happens when bright light enters the inner surface of the retina where neurons called retinal ganglion cells are located.
    — Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • All at Once feels like its own special entity, and for those susceptible to its vast charms, you’ll be reduced to a teary ganglion of googly eyes.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The dorsal root ganglion is a collection of nerves near the spinal canal that can be stimulated to provide pain relief in certain conditions.
    — Markus Bendel, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • One conceivable problem is that when the light-sensitive ganglion cells begin firing, the brain won't recognize the signals, Wang says.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2016
  • Stellate ganglion block is a 10-minute outpatient procedure that doesn’t require patients to be sedated.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The treatment involves injecting an anesthetic into the stellate ganglion — a tangle of nerves in the neck that deliver signals to the head, neck, arms and upper chest.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But there is a third type, too, known as intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, and these are not affected in color-blind people.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • These wavelength-sensitive photoreceptors were identified soon after and are known as melanopsin-containing ganglion cells.
    — Jessica Schmerler, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • Migraines, this theory holds, start when the spreading electrical wave activates the trigeminal ganglion, a cluster of neurons that sit close to the brainstem.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The photoreceptors then send an electrical signal to their neighbors, called ganglion cells, which can identify important features like motion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
  • And the retina’s exact output to the brain—the spatiotemporal patterns of electrical pulses generated by the ganglion cells—is unknown.
    — Connie Chang Chinchio, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
  • That's because there is a higher concentration of retinal ganglion cells in the center of their field of vision, making vision sharper and giving such dogs binocular depth vision.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2023
  • That's because there is a higher concentration of retinal ganglion cells in the center of their field of vision, making vision sharper and giving such dogs binocular depth vision.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025

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