Axon Definition

ăksŏn
axons
noun
axons
That part of a nerve cell through which impulses travel away from the cell body.
Webster's New World
The usually long process of a nerve fiber that generally conducts impulses away from the body of the nerve cell.
American Heritage Medicine

(cytology) 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
Synonyms:
  • axone
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Other Word Forms of Axon

Noun

Singular:
axon
Plural:
axons

Origin of Axon

  • From Ancient Greek ἄξων (axōn, “axis”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek axōn axis

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Axon Sentence Examples

  • On the other hand, in some neurons, after severance of the axon from the rest of the cell (spinal motor cell), the whole nerve cell as well as the severed axon degenerates, and may eventually die and be removed.

  • A single long axon carries the nerve impulse away from the cell body.

  • One of the features of myelination is that it leaves distinct gaps in the myelin layer where the axon is not surrounded by myelin.

  • The same may be said in regard to the development of the axon plexus of the hippocampus.

  • Thus, axon protection is likely to be mediated by altered ubiquitination or pyridine nucleotide metabolism.

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Words Starting With

AAXAXO

Words Ending With

NONXON

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Words Starting With A and Ending With N

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