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Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.

Without ganglia.

Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.

Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.

in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.

Ganglionic.

Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.

Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar. Unipolar induction (Elec.), induction, as in a conducting circuit, by only one pole of a magnet. -- Unipolar stimulation (Physiol.), the simulation sometimes produced when one elec…

of nerve cells forming one of the tracts distinguished in the spinal; -- also called the ganglionic column. -- Vesicular emphysema (Med.), emphysema of the lungs, in which the air vesicles are distended and their walls ruptured. -- Vesicular murmur (Med.), the sound, audible on auscultation of the chest, made by the…