What do people mean by "brain cells"?

Question

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Are they talking about the RBCs or the cells that make up the white/gray matter or are they talking about cells that make up a neuron?

Answer 1

probably the cells that make up the neurons.

Answer 2

This is difficult to answer, it is a little complicated.
I do believe that brain cells do form white and gray matter.
but there is the brain stem. and we do not use use all of brain.
we use it for the 5 known senses, but we avoid the 6th sense
which we are all born with. So I guess we have many brain cells, and they may not all be white or gray.
I told you that it was difficult. Maybe you should research
Einstein's brain. It would be a fantastic voyage!

Answer 3

When somebody talks about "Brain Neurons". they are not talking about one single type of cell...
in the nervous tissue of the brain, we do posess. motor, sensory, (alpha neurons), that constitute the most of the so called "gray matter" , glial and myelin producing neurons called cells of Schwann...macroglia and microglia that means big and small glia or brains "conjunctive" nervous tissue" (the glia is the "skeleton tissue between the axons and dendrites of other neuron cells),,that form most of what we call white matter.....

There is more than one type of neuron.....as we listed above...,

Answer 4

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Answer 5

brain cells as in any cell that makes up your brain. not the stuff that has to do with the brain or that would be your whole body