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Definition axon in American English

axon noun

noun
1

the long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells

Example

In contrast to the innervation of the proximal esophagus, axons from vagal neurons synapse within ganglia of the myenteric plexus.

Definition axon in American English