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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Neurophysiology, Neuroanatomy, Neurons, Nervous tissue
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axon  axone  A fibre  Axis cylinder  Axon ending
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Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron WordNet 3.0
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Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An axon, or nerve fiber, is a 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. Wikipedia
Part of a neuron. Wikipedia Disambiguation
the long process of a neuron that conducts nerve impulses Wikidata
A long, slender projection of a neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the soma. OmegaWiki
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. Wiktionary
A nerve fibre. Wiktionary (translation)