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n. A mineral crystallizing in another mineral in the form of a branching or treelike mark.

n. A rock or mineral bearing such a mark or marks.

n. A branched protoplasmic extension of a nerve cell that conducts impulses from adjacent cells inward toward the cell body. A single nerve may possess many dendrites. Also called dendron.

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

n. Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.

n. tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes

n. A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

n. A stone or a mineral on or in which are figures resembling shrubs, trees, or mosses.

n. A complex crystalline growth of arborescent form, such as is common with metallic silver and copper.

n. In neural., one of the protoplasmic processes of a nerve-cell: opposed to *neurite, the axis-cylinder. See cut at *neuron.

n. short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron

"The word dendrite means fingers; the organic glue and the surfactant used to shape the Clay NanoSheets used in this hydrogel both have fingers that reach out and grab the nearby elements, holding it all together."

nerve fibre    nerve fiber   

axon    synapse    neuron   

dendritic   

arborization   

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