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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromγᾰγγλῐ́ον
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromγᾰγγλῐ́ον
- English todayganglion
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (gănglĭ́on, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ganglion
Today it means: An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber. Full definition →
Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον