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n. The usually long process of a nerve fiber that generally conducts impulses away from the body of the nerve cell.

n. 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.

n. In anatomy, the body-axis; the mesal, longitudinal, skeletal axis of the body, represented in Branchiostoma and embryos by a membranogelatinous notochord, and in most adult vertebrates by the cartilaginous or osseous centra of the vertebræ and the base of the skull. Wilder, N. Y. Med. Jour., Aug. 2, 1884, p. 113. Also called axis.

n. The efferent or axis-cylinder process of a nerve-cell. Also spelled axone.

n. long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron

"A single large element extending outward from the other end of the cell body is called the axon d."

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