zygoneure

plural zygoneures

1. obsoleteanatomyA neuron that connects to other nerve cells.

   Zygoneures lie mostly within the cerebro spinal axis, some cells of the sympathetic system offering an exception.

   1896, New York Medical Journal, volume 63, page 374

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   The cells of the nerve roots (cellules radiculaires, von Gehuchten), could be called rhizoneures, the columnar cells (cellules des cordons), aromeures; commissural cells (cellules des voies courtes) would be zygoneures; long-path cells like those of the pyramidal tract (cellules des voies longues) would be maerodromic neures, from Gr. μακρς, δρόμος, long course.

   1895, Science, volume 2, page 778

   The absence of a zygoneure, which is characteristic for the majority of Rissoidea, can be considered a consequence of decreased body measurements and results in a centralization of the nervous system.

   1976, The Soviet Journal of Marine Biology, page 164