the single microscopic process that extends from a neuron for short or long distances and carries the electrical impulse to another neuron; axons end as synapses.
Microscopic fibers that connect brain cells to each other, allowing them to communicate. Even though they are microscopically thin, some axons in the body can be as long as three feet or more. Axons in the brain are typically coated with a white substance called myelin.
The long projections from nerves which transmit electrical impulses to the nerve terminals. Axons are covered in an insulating material (myelin) which is composed of fatty substances and looks white to the naked eye (hence the term white matter).
Long fibers that carry signals away from the cell body of a neuron. All text ©1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, M.J. Farabee, all rights reserved.
The long cytoplasmic extensions of nerve cells (neurons) that conduct the electrical impulses or messages in both the central and in the peripheral nervous systems. They can be several feet in length.
The fibres that carry messages in the nervous system. They are protected and insulated by myelin sheaths.
Part of a nerve cell that carries impulses away from the cell body to the next neuron, muscle cell or gland.
the elongated cylindrical process of a nerve cell along which action potentials are conducted; a nerve fiber
The long, slender part of a nerve cell (or neuron) that transmits impulses from the body of the nerve. Axonal damage caused by MS is now known to occur early in the disease process, along with loss of the myelin covering of the axon.