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Axon

An axon, or "nerve fiber," is a long slender projection of a nerve cell or neuron, which conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma. Axons are in effect the primary transmission lines of the nervous system, and as bundles they help make up nerves. The axons of many neurons are sheathed in myelin.

Compare dendrite.



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