Topic summary
Somata
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Soma (biology).
In cellular neuroscience, the soma (pl.: somata or somas; from Greek σῶμα (sôma) 'body'), or cell body, is the bulbous, non-process portion of a neuron or glial cell that contains the cell nucleus. The part of the soma without the nucleus is called the perikaryon (pl.: perikarya).