n :  a very large pyramidal nerve cell of the motor area of the cerebral cortex
 
Betz, Vladimir Aleksandrovich (1834-1894), Russian anatomist. In 1874 Betz discovered and described the giant pyramidal cells of the motor area of the cerebral cortex.
 
 
 
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