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Categories: Nervous tissue, Neuroplasticity, Articles with short description

dendrite dendrites dendritic dendritic arborization dendritic branch

Short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron WordNet 3.0

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Short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A dendrite or dendron is a branched protoplasmic extension of a nerve cell that propagates the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which the dendrites project. Wikipedia

A branched projection of a neuron Wikipedia Disambiguation

Neuron projection that has a short, tapering, often branched, morphology, receives and integrates signals from other neurons or from sensory stimuli, and conducts a nerve impulse towards the axon or the cell body Wikidata

A branched projection from the soma of a neuron which conducts electrical stimulation received from other cells. OmegaWiki

A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron. Wiktionary

Projection of a nerve cell. Wiktionary (translation)

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