axon

Noun

axon (plural axons)

1. (cytology) 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.

4 letters in word "axon": A N O X.

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Words found within axon:

an ax na no nox on ox

• Definitions:
• The arm of a nerve cell that normally transmits outgoing signals from one cell body to another. Each nerve cell has one axon, which can be ...
• The long, hairlike extension of a nerve cell that carries a message to the next nerve cell.
• Elongate extension of a neuron that conducts an action potential.
• An elongated extension of the neuron body that carries impulses away from the cell.
• The part of the nerve cell (neuron) that communicates with other cells, similar to a telephone wire; the axon is often covered with myelin, an insulating fatty layer, which functions similarly to plastic around a copper wire.
• (ak´son) The elongated process of a nerve cell that transmits an impulse away from the cell body of a neuron.
• The inner core of peripheral nerves.
• A long fiber of a nerve cell (a neuron) that acts somewhat like a fiber-optic cable carrying outgoing (efferent) messages. See the entire definition of Axon
• The fiber-like extension of a neuron by which the cell carries information to target cells. [5]
• A long, branching outgrowth of a neuron that carries information, in the form of a nerve impulse, away from the cell body of the neuron. Each neuron has one axon, which can be over a foot long. A neuron delivers information to other cells through the axon terminals at the end of its axon.
• long nerve cell fibers that conduct electrical impulses. Axons contact other nerve, muscle, and gland cells at synapses and release neurotransmitters that influence those cells.
• The extension or prolongation of a nerve cell (neuron) that conducts impulses to other nerve cells or muscles. Axons are generally smaller than 1 micron (1 micron = 1/1,000,000 of a meter) in diameter, but can be as much as a half meter in length.
• The cell extension of a neuron (nerve cell) that carries an electrical signal to synapses which are secreting chemical signaling molecules called neurotransmitters to stimulate/inhibit receiving cells. ...
• Myelin-ensheathed tail of the neuron that is responsible for carrying impulses away from the neuron cell body. Nerves are made up of several interwoven axons.
• The single one among a nerve cell's processes that under normal circumatances conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body and it's remaining processes.
• A portion of a neuron that connects dendrites together.
• (ax·on) (ak´son) [Gr. ax?n axle, axis] 1. that process of a neuron by which impulses travel away from the cell body; at the terminal arborization of the axon, the impulses are transmitted to other nerve cells or to effector organs. ...
• a usually long and single nerve-cell process (for instance, located in the optic nerve of the eye) that conducts impulses away from the cell body (for instance, located in the retina)
• The neuron’s tail-like "wire," a long (0.1 - 2,000 mm), spider thread thin portion of the neuron that carries voltages between the neuron’s input sites (concentrated on cell body and dendritic tree) and the neuron’s outputs, its many-branched axon terminals that make synapses onto ...
• Neuron process carrying nerve impulses away from the cell body of the neuron. The pathway through which the nerve impulse travels.
• The major branching fiber of a neuron.
• Part of the neuron which sends signals to nearby neurons.
• highly specialized relatively long extension (process) of a neuron used for conduction of electrical messages (ie action potentials). Axons are considerably more specialized and therefore easier to understand than other excitable tissues. ...
• It is through these that the impulses are transmitted to other nerve cells or to parts of the body directly stimulated by nerves (ie muscles, organs). In the nervous system, the axon is covered by a myelin sheath, and together they form the nerve fiber. ...
• A long filament-like projection of a neuron that conducts electrical signals away from the neuron cell body (nucleus) to other neurons.
• long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
• An axon or nerve fiber, is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma.

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