brain cell

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brain cell - a nerve cell in the brain             nerve cell, neuron - a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses Golgi cell, Golgi's cell - a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter Purkinje cell - a large densely branching neuron that is the characteristic cell of the cerebellar cortex brain, encephalon - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord