Množina: axons
Projection of nerve cell that passes on nerve impulses.
Long threadlike extension of a nerve cell that conducts electrochemical impulses away from the cell body toward other nerve cells, or toward an effector organ such as a muscle. Axons terminate in synapses, junctions with other nerve cells, muscles, or glands.
Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron; SYN. axone.