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. 1  basic cell of the nervous system in vertebrates and most invertebrates from the level of the cnidarians (e.g., corals, jellyfish) upward. A typical neuron has a cell body containing a nucleus and two or more long fibres.