In pumps. Flexible impeller of cooling system pump of an outboard engine. An impeller is a rotating component of a centrifugal pump, usually made of iron, steel, bronze, brass, aluminium or plastic, which transfers energy from the motor that drives the pump to the fluid being pumped by accelerating the fluid outwards from the center of rotation.
noun, plural: dorsal root ganglia. (neuroanatomy) The ganglion on the dorsal root of every spinal nerve. It is where the cell bodies of sensory neurons are located; hence, it is chiefly involved in the transmission of sensory information.
Histology of the Dorsal Root Ganglion. Many of the cell bodies of the sensory and motor neurons of the peripheral neves are grouped into nodules or swellings called ganglia. There are two major types of ganglia in the peripheral nervous system: the craniospinal ganglia contain the cell bodies of sensory neurons of cranial and spinal nerves. The autnomic ganglia of the autonomic nervous system contain the cell bodies of the motor neurons of autonomic nerves.