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.
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. The definition of a neuron is a basic nerve cell that builds the nervous system and transmits information throughout the body. An example of a neuron is a cell that tells your body to react to pain.euron. noun. 1  Any of the impulse-conducting cells that constitute the brain, spinal column, and nerves in vertebrates, consisting of a nucleated cell body with one or more dendrites and a single axon. 2  A similar impulse-conducting cell in invertebrates. 3  In both senses also called nerve cell.