different between nerves vs ganglion

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?vz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??vz/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /n??vz/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /n??vz/
• Rhymes: -??(?)vz

Noun

nerves

1. plural of nerve

Verb

nerves

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nerve

Anagrams

• Severn, Vernes

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: nerve, nervent

Verb

nerves

1. second-person singular present indicative of nerver
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of nerver

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (ganglíon, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ?.?li.?n/
• Rhymes: -æ??li?n

Noun

ganglion (plural ganglia or ganglions)

1. (neuroanatomy)
   1. An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.

      Hyponyms: autonomic ganglion, cervical ganglion, dorsal root ganglion, Gasserian ganglion, geniculate ganglion, Meckel's ganglion, spinal ganglion

   2. Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.

      Synonym: nucleus

2. (transferred sense) A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.
3. (pathology) A benign cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule.

   Synonym: ganglion cyst

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “ganglion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “ganglion”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Czech

Noun

ganglion n

1. ganglion
2. ganglion cyst

Finnish

Noun

ganglion

1. Genitive singular form of ganglio.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?li.j??/

Noun

ganglion m (plural ganglions)

1. ganglion

Derived terms

• ganglion lymphatique

Further reading

• “ganglion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

ganglion (plural gangliones)

1. ganglion

Romanian

Etymology

From French ganglion

Noun

ganglion m (plural ganglioni)

1. ganglion

Declension