Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The usually long process of a nerve fiber that generally conducts impulses away from the body of the nerve cell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the body-axis; the mesal, longitudinal, skeletal axis of the body, represented in Branchiostoma and embryos by a membranogelatinous notochord, and in most adult vertebrates by the cartilaginous or osseous centra of the vertebræ and the base of the skull. Wilder, N. Y. Med. Jour., Aug. 2, 1884, p. 113. Also called
axis . - noun The efferent or axis-cylinder process of a nerve-cell. Also spelled
axone .
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- noun cytology A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a
nerve cell , and which conductsnerve impulses away from the body of the cell to asynapse .
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- noun long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Etymologies
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Examples
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A single large element extending outward from the other end of the cell body is called the axon d.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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A single large element extending outward from the other end of the cell body is called the axon d.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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(D-I) The diaphragms of wild-type (D-F) and meltrin β − / − (G-I) mice at E18. 5 were stained with an anti-synaptophysin antibody (D and G) to label axon terminals and with BTX (E and H) to label acetylcholine receptors (AChRs).
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Located at the end of the axon is a spherical protuberance called the end bulb e.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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Located at the end of the axon is a spherical protuberance called the end bulb e.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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The central thread in the axon is the axis cylinder.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The axon is a long, tubular fiber that transmits the action potentials from a soma to the dendrites or to an effector organ.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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The axon is a long, tubular fiber that transmits the action potentials from a soma to the dendrites or to an effector organ.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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The axon is a long, tubular fiber that transmits the action potentials from a soma to the dendrites or to an effector organ.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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In neurons, there is one projection called axon, it is much longer than the others, and it carries away the information from the cell body.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
chained_bear commented on the word axon
"... a sense of danger communicates itself among people in a confined setting: hospital emergency room, surgical suite, train car, ship; urgency flashes from one person to the next without speech, like the impulse down a neuron's axon to the dendrites of another."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 804
February 3, 2010