How to Use ganglion in a Sentence

ganglion

noun

• The ganglion cells then send the signals via the optic nerve to the brain.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• But their eyes still have the ganglion cells that route these signals to the brain via the optic nerve.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2021
• Each dark band is a ganglion, which would have controlled a single pair of legs.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2016
• Something that tickles the ganglions and charges you up to make it across the finish line to Labor Day?
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• The technique, known as a stellate ganglion block, has been used for decades to treat all sorts of pain conditions.
  — Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2023
• With oral herpes, HSV-1 hangs out in the trigeminal ganglion, a nerve cluster in your skull.
  — Becky Little, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
• The most avid advocates for the stellate ganglion block are Liu’s patients.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2022
• Retinal ganglion cells that take up the gene can then respond to red light projected into the eye.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2019
• The team focused specifically on neurons at the back of the eye called retinal ganglion cells.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• So, the researchers damaged the optic nerve, then activated the three stem cell genes in the retinal ganglion cells.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2020
• Fewer than 5 percent of the neurons, called retinal ganglion cells, grew back.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 2 July 2018
• His needle’s target: a collection of nerves known as the stellate ganglion.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2022
• The chip electrically stimulates the retina so ganglion cells can pick up the images.
  — Rachel Metz, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2006
• Recall that the wasp's first sting goes into the first thoracic ganglion, paralyzing the front legs during the initial attack.
  — Kenneth C. Catania, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• All at Once feels like its own special entity, and for those susceptible to its vast charms, you’ll be reduced to a teary ganglion of googly eyes.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
• The dorsal root ganglion is a collection of nerves near the spinal canal that can be stimulated to provide pain relief in certain conditions.
  — Markus Bendel, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Migraines, this theory holds, start when the spreading electrical wave activates the trigeminal ganglion, a cluster of neurons that sit close to the brainstem.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2018
• And the retina’s exact output to the brain—the spatiotemporal patterns of electrical pulses generated by the ganglion cells—is unknown.
  — Connie Chang Chinchio, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
• Stellate ganglion blocks have been used for decades to treat chronic pain of the right or left upper extremities, pain conditions in the face, abnormal heart rhythms, menopause and post-traumatic stress disorder, Shin said.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• The U.S. Army is researching an anesthetic injection​ called a stellate ganglion block ​that could relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 12 June 2017
• Next, the researchers invented a special device to transform visual information from the external world into amber light that could be recognized by the ganglion cells.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
• But there is a third type, too, known as intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, and these are not affected in color-blind people.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
• The photoreceptors then send an electrical signal to their neighbors, called ganglion cells, which can identify important features like motion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
• Results from a new clinical trial of active-duty service members have shown that an injection in the neck called stellate ganglion block, or SGB, is an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
  — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2019
• These wavelength-sensitive photoreceptors were identified soon after and are known as melanopsin-containing ganglion cells.
  — Jessica Schmerler, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• For example, stellate ganglion block is an injection that helps to calm an overactive fight-or-flight system, and ketamine infusions are another emerging treatment option.
  — Shauna Springer, CNN, 11 Sep. 2020
• Another minimally invasive procedure that has shown some benefit for chronic knee pain after surgery is the use of dorsal root ganglion, or DRG, stimulation.
  — Markus Bendel, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Some new research from Jefferson Health in Philadelphia suggests that a procedure called stellate ganglion block is somewhat effective at reducing parosmia in patients who didn’t respond to pharmaceutical or topical therapies.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
• Bypassing damaged photoreceptors, the electrodes directly stimulate surviving neurons—either bipolar or ganglion cells—that feed into the brain’s visual cortex, imparting an artificial version of sight to patients.
  — Connie Chang Chinchio, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
• This includes ipRGCs, or intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
  — Brittany Nader, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024