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单词 brain cell
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Definition of brain cell in English:

brain cell

noun
  • 1A cell in the tissue of the brain.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With repetition, the electrical discharge spreads from brain cell to brain cell, eventually creating a kind of firestorm of neural activity that resembles what occurs in human epilepsy.
    • Some day we could learn from the egg what factors are in the egg that would re-program the nucleus of a skin cell or a brain cell or an immune cell.
    • Many people know that stem cells can grow into virtually any cell type found in the body, from a red blood cell to a muscle cell to a brain cell.
    • And once again, we had no toxicity from putting the virus into the brain cell.
    • They speculate that a large brain cell reserve protects against Alzheimer's and that head circumference is one way to measure this reserve.
    1. 1.1informal Used to refer to someone's intellectual capabilities.
      I couldn't get my brain cells around the questions never mind the answers
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Congratulations Cartridge, you just reflected something that any imbecile with half a brain cell functioning in their frontal lobes could have told you about language acquisition.
      • Logan says they don't have a single brain cell between them.
      • Now anyone with half a brain cell knows what I did just then.
      • I'm having a bit of a dry spell and my brain cell's all dried up trying to get into the inner workings of Dylan's mind.
      • What the hell does Damien see in that girl, who is obviously only propelled by a single brain cell floating forlornly around in her vacuous head?
 
 

Definition of brain cell in US English:

brain cell

noun
  • 1A cell in the tissue of the brain.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some day we could learn from the egg what factors are in the egg that would re-program the nucleus of a skin cell or a brain cell or an immune cell.
    • With repetition, the electrical discharge spreads from brain cell to brain cell, eventually creating a kind of firestorm of neural activity that resembles what occurs in human epilepsy.
    • Many people know that stem cells can grow into virtually any cell type found in the body, from a red blood cell to a muscle cell to a brain cell.
    • They speculate that a large brain cell reserve protects against Alzheimer's and that head circumference is one way to measure this reserve.
    • And once again, we had no toxicity from putting the virus into the brain cell.
    1. 1.1informal Regarded as a unit of intellectual power.
      it does help if the student has more than one brain cell
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What the hell does Damien see in that girl, who is obviously only propelled by a single brain cell floating forlornly around in her vacuous head?
      • Congratulations Cartridge, you just reflected something that any imbecile with half a brain cell functioning in their frontal lobes could have told you about language acquisition.
      • Logan says they don't have a single brain cell between them.
      • I'm having a bit of a dry spell and my brain cell's all dried up trying to get into the inner workings of Dylan's mind.
      • Now anyone with half a brain cell knows what I did just then.
 
 
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