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

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

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