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Definition of Axone

1. Noun. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.

Definition of Axone

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of axon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Axone

1. axon [n -S] - See also: axon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Axone

Literary usage of Axone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"The axone.—This differs from the cell body and dendrites in that it ... Some few cells have more than one axone, and nerve cells without axones have been ..."

2. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"There each axone bifurcates into an ascending and descending limb, giving off also collaterals to the gray substance. ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... of a toxic agent of unknown character having a peculiar chemical affinity for myeline, and possibly also for certain analogous material in the axone. ..."

4. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"Not all axones have a medullary sheath, uor is any axone completely medullated. ... In the sheath of a growing axone at least two changes can be readily ..."

5. Investigations Representing the Departments: Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"An axone originates, as a rule, from a specially differentiated portion of the cell-body known as the "axone hillock." The axone hillock appears under the ..."

6. The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Central Nervous System by Herman Camp Grodinier, H. C. Cordinier (1899)
"... OR axone. The most important of the protoplasmic processes is the one which in most cases is destined to become, after receiving a covering of myelin, ..."

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