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A long fiber of a nerve cell (a neuron) that acts somewhat like a fiber-optic cable carrying outgoing messages.
Ãâó: www.memorydisorder.org/glossaryterms.htm
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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.
Ãâó: www.myelin.org/glossary.htm
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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)
Ãâó: www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/glossary/A.html
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| 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.
Ãâó: www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/pubs/sci_repo...
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| axon |
A portion of a neuron that connects dendrites together.
Ãâó: www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/IV.Definitions.h...
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