Cell
amacrine cell
Subclass of:
Retinal Neurons; Interneurons
Definitions related to amacrine cells:
  • A retinal neuron that lacks large axons, having only processes that resemble dendrites.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Interneurons of the vertebrate retina which integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the retinal ganglion cells, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • INTERNEURONS of the vertebrate RETINA. They integrate, modulate, and interpose a temporal domain in the visual message presented to the RETINAL GANGLION CELLS, with which they synapse in the inner plexiform layer.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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