Usually means: Cell transmitting information through electrical signals.
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  1. neuron: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. neuron: Collins English Dictionary
  3. neuron: Vocabulary.com
  4. Neuron, neuron: Wordnik
  5. neuron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Neuron: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. neuron: Wiktionary
  8. neuron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. neuron (neurone): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. neuron: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. neuron: Dictionary.com
  12. neuron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. NEUROn, Neuron (disambiguation), Neuron (journal), Neuron (software), Neuron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Neuron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. neuron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. neuron: Rhymezone
  17. Neuron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. neuron: FreeDictionary.org
  19. neuron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. neuron: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. neuron: Merriam-Webster
  22. neuron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  23. neuron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -neuron, neuron-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. neuron: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. neuron: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. neuron: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Neuron: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Neuron (nerve cell): Merck Manuals
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  8. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. neuron: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. neuron: Medical dictionary
  12. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  13. Neuron: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NEURON: Acronym Finder
  2. neuron: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. neuron: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  4. neuron: Natural History Terms
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neuron: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See neuronal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (cytology) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
noun:  (zoology) A nervure of an insect's wing.
noun:  (artificial intelligence) an artificial neuron (mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network)

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