ganglionic

English

Etymology

From ganglion +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

ganglionic (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or composed of ganglia.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
     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...

Derived terms

• aganglionic
• extraganglionic
• interganglionic
• intraganglionic
• monoganglionic
• multiganglionic
• nonganglionic
• normoganglionic
• paraganglionic
• periganglionic
• polyganglionic
• postganglionic
• preganglionic
• supraganglionic
• transganglionic

Anagrams

• coaligning