11779 IUPAC Gold Book - ganglion 10.1351/goldbook.11779 11779 current 1 Cluster of nerve cell bodies located outside the brain and spinal cord, i.e., in the peripheral nervous system.Note: Ganglia interconnect to form a complex network known as a plexus and serve as relay stations where different neurons can modulate the signals of each other. Compare: basal ganglion. Fibrous cyst usually attached to a tendon sheath. PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 869 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11779/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11779/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11779/plain Citation: 'ganglion' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11779 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-10T18:33:27+00:00