Axon Common

Axon has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron

axon axone

A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

See Also

semaphorin defasciculate axodendritic overbranching backpropagation schwann cell myelination hemojuvelin

Related Terms

semaphorin defasciculate axodendritic overbranching backpropagation schwann cell myelination hemojuvelin axon hillock axipetal uniaxonal nestin autapse pseudounipolar polyaxonal axogenesis herring body axotomize retrograde neurotransmitter multiaxonal

Broader Terms (hypernyms)

nerve fiber

Rhyming Words

exon oxon nixon lexon hexon dixon hixon taxon moxon luxon exxon faxon saxon jaxon paxon imexon fluxon flexon klaxon claxon

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