Word: ganglion
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...bias toward overtesting. They are less beguiled by flashy technology, more aware of the risks of even simple procedures and thus more willing to trust their doctor's instincts. If everything in his experience tells your doctor that the lump on the back of your hand is a ganglion and not a malignant tumor, it may not make sense to run the risk that goes with surgical excision. If your baby is born after a very long labor but shows no sign of infection, then agreeing to a spinal tap just to be sure may not always be worth...
They are currently trying to figure out how the features of a visual image are encoded in the spike trains that retinal ganglion cells send to the brain...
...extending the trend of data overload. Still, its creators, Earl Mac Rauch (New York, New York) and W.D. Richter (who wrote Slither and Brubaker), propel their film with such pace and farfetched style that anyone without Ph.D.s in astrophysics and pop culture is likely to get lost in the ganglion of story strands. One wonders if the movie is too ambitious, facetious and hip for its own box-office good...
...wonder. The self-contained, self-sufficient small town has vanished with the ascendance, in the U.S., of an increasingly singular technological economy from which the entire nation is suspended. By the 1920s the small town was rightly called a "ganglion" of the city, and it is even more intricately tied today to the larger society in which culture flies everywhere by television. Small towns, in short, are racked by some of the same strains that beset the cities...
...asides like, "His simple eloquence goes to my heart!" and "Oh, my heart, my beating heart!" and Rackstraw's statement of love, with the phrase "wafted one moment into blazing day, by mocking hope--plunged the next into Cimmerian darkness of tangible despair, I am but a living ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms." draw cheers from an unbelieving audience...