basket cells
1basket cells — Cerebellar neurons with many small dendritic branches that enclose the cell bodies of adjacent Purkinje cells in a basket like array …
2Basket cell — Infobox neuron neuron name = Basket cell image neuron = Gray706.png caption neuron = Transverse section of a cerebellar folium (Basket cell labeled at bottom left) location = Cerebellum function = Inhibitory interneuron neurotranmitter = GABA… …
3basket cell — noun : any of the cells in the molecular layer of the cerebellum whose axis cylinder processes pass inward and end in a basketlike network around the cells of Purkinje * * * basket cell, one of a layer of tiny, star shaped cells in the cerebellum …
4basket — 1. A basketlike arborization of the axon of cells in the cerebellar cortex, surrounding the cell body of Purkinje cells. 2. Any basketlike device or structure. [M.E., from Celtic] fibrillar baskets the scleral end of …
5basket cell — bas·ket cell bas kət n any of the cells in the molecular layer of the cerebellum whose axons pass inward and end in a basketlike network around the Purkinje cells * * * 1. a cell of the cerebellar cortex whose axon gives off brushes of fibrils,… …
6Venus' Flower Basket — Taxobox name = Venus Flower Basket image width = 200px regnum = Animalia phylum = Porifera classis = Hexactenellida familia = Euplectellidae genus = Euplectella species = E. aspergillum binomial = Euplectella aspergillum binomial authority = Owen …
7Venus's flower basket — a glass sponge of the genus Euplectella, inhabiting deep waters off the Philippines and Japan, having a cylindrical skeleton formed of an intricate latticework of siliceous spicules. [1870 75] * * * ▪ sponge any of several sponges of the… …
8myoepithelial cells — modified smooth muscle cells, contractile in nature, believed to be of ectodermal origin, located around the secretory units of certain glands (salivary, mammary, sweat, and lacrimal glands) between the gland cells and basement membrane, having… …
9Sieve cells — Sieve Sieve, n. [OE. sive, AS. sife; akin to D. zeef, zift, OHG. sib, G. sieb. [root]151a. Cf. {Sift}.] 1. A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel,… …
10Cerebellum — This article is about the smaller region in the lower part of the brain. For the large region of the brain, see Cerebrum. Brain: Cerebellum A human brain, with the cerebellum colored in purple …
