AXON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does axon mean? 

• AXON (noun)
  The noun AXON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: AXON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AXON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

axon; axone

Hypernyms ("axon" is a kind of...):

nerve fiber; nerve fibre (a threadlike extension of a nerve cell)

Meronyms (parts of "axon"):

nerve end; nerve ending (the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse)

Holonyms ("axon" is a part of...):

nerve cell; neuron (a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses)

Derivation:

axonal (of or relating to or resembling an axon)

 Context examples 

It is formed by the axons of OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS which project from the olfactory epithelium (in the nasal epithelium) to the OLFACTORY BULB.

(Murine Olfactory Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A nerve cell with several processes, usually an axon and three or more dendrites.

(Multipolar Neuron, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of numerous small neurons, small pyramidal cells, stellate cells, especially superficially and fusiform cells in deeper part whose axons project into the white substance of the cerebral cortex hemisphere

(Multiform Cell Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)

Their unmyelinated axons synapse in the olfactory bulb of the brain.

(Murine Olfactory Receptor Neurons, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The most important recognized function of these cells is the formation of the insulating myelin sheaths of axons in the central nervous system.

(Murine Oligodendroglia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Neuroglial cells of the peripheral nervous system which form the insulating myelin sheaths of peripheral axons.

(Murine Schwann Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

The nerve carries the axons of the retinal ganglion cells which sort at the optic chiasm and continue via the optic tracts to the brain.

(Murine Optic Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Neuroglial cells of ectodermal origin whose processes form the myelin sheath around neuronal axons of the CNS.

(Murine Oligodendroglia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

This protein may be involved in axon stability.

(Microtubule-Associated Protein Tau, NCI Thesaurus)

A specialized tactile sensory nerve ending in the epidermis, characterized by a terminal cuplike expansion of an intraepidermal axon in contact with the base of a single modified keratinocyte.

(Merkel's Corpuscle, NCI Thesaurus)