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.
A neuron is a specialized type of cell found in the bodies of all eumetozoans. Only sponges and a few other simpler animals lack neurons. The features that define a neuron are electrical excitability and the presence of synapses, which are complex membrane junctions that transmit signals to other cells.