Sentence examples for a nerve cell from inspiring English sources
'a nerve cell' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a specialized type of cell that transmits electrical signals throughout the body. For example: "A nerve cell transmits electrical signals between the brain and various organs in the body."
"If you lose a nerve cell, it doesn't come back," she said.
While a nerve cell can trigger a nerve cell downstream to turn on or off, a digital kind of information transfer, analog interactions among nerve cells involve graded effects.
Professor Huxley and Professor Hodgkin ran experiments using a nerve cell extracted from a squid.
When a nerve cell fires, its electrical impulses jump between the gaps in the myelin sheath, and this hastens their propagation along the length of the fibre.
When a nerve cell dies, it emits a barrage of electrical impulses that greatly exceeds the signal traffic in its neighborhood for a few seconds.
You will also have absorbed some new concepts and vocabulary ("nociceptor", a nerve cell that sends pain signals to the brain, is a new one on me).
All cells in the body have the same genes — what makes a nerve cell different from a muscle cell is that some genes are silenced in a nerve cell and others are silenced in a muscle cell.
Axon, also called nerve fibre, portion of a nerve cell (neuron) that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body.
Its researchers have turned them into a type of cell that produces the insulating sheath around a nerve cell.
A nerve cell in her face underwent a drastic mutation: its chromosomes shattered and then stitched themselves back together.
(The dendrites of a nerve cell carry impulses to the nerve cell; its axon, away from the cell).
