ganglionic
English
Etymology
From ganglion + -ic.
Adjective
ganglionic (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or composed of ganglia.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:Episode 12, The Cyclops
- The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus...
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Derived terms
- aganglionic
- interganglionic
- intraganglionic
- nonganglionic
- paraganglionic
- periganglionic
- postganglionic
- preganglionic
- supraganglionic
- transganglionic
Anagrams
- coaligning