Letter G

Ganglion

Ganglion: The celebrated 2nd century Greek physician Galen ((c.

130-201 A.D.) who lived and worked in Rome first used the word ganglion to denote a nerve complex.

Ganglion still is used to refer to an aggregation of nerve cell bodies.

Another use of the word ganglion is for a tendon cyst that most commonly pops up near the wrist.

To learn more about ganglions of the tendinous type, read the article on Ganglion.

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