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axon

A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 | 227 words | Copyright

axon The long threadlike part of a nerve cell (neuron). It carries the nerve impulse (in the form of an action potential) away from the cell body of a neuron towards either an effector organ or the brain. See also nerve fibre.

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