axon

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Examples

• Usually, most message-sending axons touch a message-receiving dendrite just once.

• Machine learning algorithms segmented cells and classified synapses, axons, dendrites, cells, and other structures, and humans checked their work.

• At the other end of the neuron, long tail-like axons extend toward other parts of the brain or body.

• The message leaves an axon through finger-like terminals at the end.

• Electrical signals move along the axon as waves of positively and negatively charged ions.

• One of these processes, the axon, is much longer than the others and ends in a muscle or organ of sensation.

• The axon forms the pathway over which nervous impulses travel to and from the nerve centers.

• We saw a moment ago that every axon is inclosed in a sheath.

• The contact of the axon of one neuron with the dendrons of another is called a synapse.

• Its dendrites are short tree-like branches, while its axon is often several inches or even feet in length.