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- axon | nerve fibre | nerve fiber | nerve fibers
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- Definition long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body Reference "Wikipedia > Axon (23.3.2021)"
- Comment It is where electrical impulses from the neuron travel away to be received by other neurons.An axon typically develops side branches called axon collaterals, so that one neuron can send information to several others. These collaterals, just like the roots of a tree, split into smaller extensions called terminal branches. Each of these has a synaptic terminal on the tip. Neurons communicate through synapses - contact points between the axon terminals on one side and dendrites or cell bodies on the other.