How to Use neuron in a Sentence

neuron

noun

• Two-thirds of these neurons are in their arms and the rest are in the brain.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• As a result, neurons near the site of the stroke get damaged.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• The brain is a bit like a beehive, where a neuron is the queen, Macaulay says.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
• The world arranges itself around him; the heart beats and the neurons fire and the markets move.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
• In this case, the antibodies sought out tau, a protein that sits in the neurons of the brain.
  — Shannon McDonagh, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• The louder the sound, the more often the neuron was spiking—and the higher its firing rate.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 11 June 2021
• To fuel all of its neurons, the brain depends on oxygen.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• And many of the traffic cop molecules that direct the growth of neurons in these worms do the same in humans.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Wear and Tear The spine is a 30-level tower of neurons encased in a cylinder of bone.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
• Their brains are found to have about 257 billion neurons, around three times more than a human brain.
  — Hazra Khatoon, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• Once the sound enters the brain, neurons shoot up across different parts to decode each lyric, melody and rhythm.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• How do neurons reach out and grab other neurons and send signals to them?
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• This loosely models neurons in the brain, to train off of decades of past weather data.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 22 July 2024
• This approach would be perfect if each neuron in a model had a clear, unique role.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 26 July 2024
• Battered and scarred blood vessels that are no longer able to support neurons.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Like the jellies, the membranes of our neurons need just the right amount of fluidity to function.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024
• Glioma originates in glial cells that surround and support neurons in the brain, per the website.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
• Without these neurons, the mice couldn’t find cookies hidden in their cages.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Every minute during a stroke, neurons in the brain die because of a lack of blood, Effendi said.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• But the human brain has about 16 billion neurons in the cortex alone, not to mention billions more glial cells.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• Futrell says that neurons are like telephone poles sending signals from your brain to other parts of your body.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Imagine that your brain is the football stadium, and each of the neurons is a person in that stadium.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
• How neurons might inhibit this effect were among his ideas that led to new insights at the workshop.
  — John McCarthy, IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2023
• Enlarge Westend61 Sleep is a semiconscious state, but there are neurons firing in the brain even when all seems quiet.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
• And for as yet unknown reasons, along with more cortical neurons comes a longer life.
  — Suzana Herculano-Houzel, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2019
• Playing music is thought to build neuron connections in the brain and requires the brain to exercise.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 13 May 2023
• All of these regions are made of gray matter, a type of tissue that contains neuron cell bodies and covers the surface of the brain.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
• The strength of connection of each neuron to its neighbor is a parameter of the network called weight.
  — Kate Saenko, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
• To a naloxone molecule, each neuron would have loomed like a planet.
  — Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
• The island also produces the lion’s share of the world’s semiconductors — the tiny neurons inside most electronics.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024