Civil inattention is thus a means of making privacy possible within a crowd through culturally accepted forms of self-distancing. Seemingly (though not in reality) effortless, such civility is a way of shielding others from personal claims in public â an essential feature of the abstract, impersonal relationships demanded by the open society.
neuron (plural neurons or neura) (cytology) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites.
neuron - a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses. nerve cell. gangliocyte, ganglion cell - a nerve cell whose body is outside the central nervous system; damage to ganglion cells in the retina may play a role in the development of glaucoma.