Plural of cytone; multiple cell bodies or cytoplasmic substances, particularly used in neural contexts to refer to nerve cell bodies.
Regular plural of 'cytone' (from Greek 'kytos' + 'one'). In neurology, 'cyton' was specifically used to mean the main body of a nerve cell containing the nucleus, distinct from axons and dendrites.
In neuroscience, 'cyton' was an older term for what we now call the soma or cell body—the command center of the neuron—and you might still find it in historical neurology texts showing how terminology evolves as science becomes more precise.
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