shape fusiform, nerve or c's are globular, stellate, with one pyramidal, or more processes

One of these proce es (sometimes more) is connected with a nerve fiber and is called the axis-cylinder proce . The remaining, protoplasmic, proce es either end blindly or form communications with similar proce es from other c's. neuroglia c. Syn.: spider c, neuroglia corpuscle. One of the c's belonging to the neuroglia or supporting ti ue of the central nervous system, neuromuscular c. The name given by Kleinenburg (1872) to c's in the ectoderm and endoderm of Hydra and other cel enter ates, which consist of a large cell like portion on the free surface of the body or the body cavity, and a fibrous, smooth, or striated contractile part in the body wall. The c. has a triple function: (a) that of an epithelial c; (b) of a nerve c, in so far as it receives stimuli and transmits them to the muscular portion; and (c) of a muscle c. in so far as it responds to a stimulus by contracting along its long axis, notochordal c's.