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nerve cell
noun
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For example, vitamin B-12, which is necessary for making red blood cells, keeping nerve cells functioning properly, and forming DNA, among other things, is found almost exclusively in animal products.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2024
Recurrent herpes may happen if something triggers the virus, which lies inactive in your nerve cells, to reactivate.
—Jennifer Sabour, Health, 5 May 2024
Your Pregnancy Symptoms Week by Week Developmental Milestones Your unborn baby is forming the five senses as the nerve cells in the brain are developing.
—Tiffany Eve Lawrence, Parents, 3 May 2024
Your body also needs the mineral to help make myelin, a protein that wraps protectively around nerve cells to help amplify all those signals.
—Lizzy Briskin, SELF, 26 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Nerve cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20cell. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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