Pur·kin·je cell 
(pûr-kĭnjē)
(pûr-kĭnjē)n.
A large, drop-shaped, densely branching neuron that is the characteristic cell of the cerebellar cortex.
[After Johannes Evangelista von Purkinje (1787-1869), Bohemian physiologist.]
Purkinje cellphotomicrograph of a Purkinje cell from the cerebellum of a human brain