Usually means: Central part of a neuron.
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  1. cell body: Merriam-Webster
  2. cell body: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cell-body: Wordnik
  4. Cell body, Cell body: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  5. cell body: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. cell body: Dictionary.com
  7. Cell body: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. cell body: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. cell body: Wiktionary

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  1. cell body: Legal dictionary

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  1. cell body: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cell body: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. cell body: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cell body)

noun:  (biology) A cell of a unicellular organism, constituting its entire body.
noun:  (cytology) The main body of a cell, containing its nucleus and organelles (as opposed to various projections or elements of external structure such as cell wall, flagella, dendrites, etc.).
noun:  (neurology) The nucleus-containing central part of a neuron exclusive of its axons and dendrites that is the major structural element of the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord, the ganglia, and the retina.

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