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单词 mauthner
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Mauthnern.

Brit. /ˈmaʊθnə/, /ˈmaʊtnə/, U.S. /ˈmaʊθnər/, /ˈmaʊtnər/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mauthner.
Etymology: < the name of Ludwig Mauthner (1840–94), Austrian ophthalmologist and neuroanatomist, who described the nerve fibres in 1859 ( Sitzungsber. der Kaiserl. Akad. der Wissensch. (Math.-Nat. Classe) 34 31). Compare German Mauthner'schen Fasern Mauthner fibres (1868).
Zoology.
attributive and in the genitive. Designating, belonging to, or involving either of a pair of very large reticulospinal neurons found in bony fishes and many amphibians, which have the cell body in the medulla oblongata and the axon (nerve fibre) extending the length of the spinal cord, and which are involved especially in fast escape responses.
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1892 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 2 p. xxiii It consists of large fibres, among which, in the caudal region, is a large cord like the Mauthner fibre of fishes.
1906 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. & Psychol. 16 99 The motor regions of the spinal cord corresponding to Mauthner's fibers in the dorsal longitudinal bundle itself in the bony fishes.
1914 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 24 379 The axones of Mauthner's cells decussate and descend in the fasciculus longitudinalis medialis.
1974 D. Webster & M. Webster Compar. Vertebr. Morphol. xii. 291 In teleosts these are the Mauthner cells, located in the reticular formation near the entrance of the lateral line and eighth cranial nerves.
1991 Brain, Behavior & Evol. 37 273/1 We now know that the Mauthner reflex hypothesis fails to adequately describe how the animal produces the diverse range of escape trajectories.
1995 Jrnl. Neurobiol. 26 253 We have examined the proteolytic breakdown of neurofilament proteins in isolated Mauthner axoplasm.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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