axon
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.
A kind of
- nerve fiber
Related words
- axipetal
- axogenesis
- axonless
- axonocentric
- axonogenesis
- axonography
- axonotrophic
- axonotrophy
- axopetal
- diaxon
- mesaxon
- monoaxon
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “axon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.