这个词以前在法语中被采用,拼写为'neurone'。<ref name="mehta">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mehta AR, Mehta PR, Anderson SP, MacKinnon BL, Compston A | title = Grey Matter Etymology and the neuron(e) | journal = Brain | volume = 143 | issue = 1 | pages = 374–379 | date = January 2020 | pmid = 31844876 | pmc = 6935745 | doi = 10.1093/brain/awz367 | url = }}</ref>这种拼法也曾被许多英语作家使用,[38]但现在在美国的用法中已经很少见,在英国的用法中也不常见。<ref name="ngram">{{cite web |title=Google Books Ngram Viewer |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=neuron%2Cneurone&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&case_insensitive=on&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cneuron%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bneuron%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNeuron%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNEURON%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cneurone%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bneurone%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNeurone%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNEURONE%3B%2Cc0 |website=books.google.com |access-date=19 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="oed"/> | 这个词以前在法语中被采用,拼写为'neurone'。<ref name="mehta">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mehta AR, Mehta PR, Anderson SP, MacKinnon BL, Compston A | title = Grey Matter Etymology and the neuron(e) | journal = Brain | volume = 143 | issue = 1 | pages = 374–379 | date = January 2020 | pmid = 31844876 | pmc = 6935745 | doi = 10.1093/brain/awz367 | url = }}</ref>这种拼法也曾被许多英语作家使用,[38]但现在在美国的用法中已经很少见,在英国的用法中也不常见。<ref name="ngram">{{cite web |title=Google Books Ngram Viewer |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=neuron%2Cneurone&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&case_insensitive=on&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cneuron%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bneuron%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNeuron%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNEURON%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cneurone%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bneurone%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNeurone%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BNEURONE%3B%2Cc0 |website=books.google.com |access-date=19 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="oed"/> |