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English

Alternative forms

• axone (dated)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axis”).

Noun

axon (plural axons)

1. (cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

Hypernyms

• (nerve fibre): neuronal process, neurite, nerve fibre

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• noxa

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?akson]

Noun

axon m

1. axon

Further reading

• axon in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Hungarian

Etymology

From scientific Latin axon, from Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axis”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??kson]
• Hyphenation: axon
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

axon (plural axonok)

1. (cytology) axon (a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse)

   Synonym: tengelyfonál

Declension

References

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ak.so?n/, [?äks?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.son/, [??ks?n]

Noun

ax?n m (genitive axonis); third declension

1. a line on a sundial (or its axis)
2. the axis of a ballista

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• axon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• axon in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Romanian

Etymology

From French axone.

Noun

axon m (plural axoni)

1. axon

Declension

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (auxánein, “to grow”).

Noun

auxin (countable and uncountable, plural auxins)

1. (botany) A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.

Derived terms

• antiauxin
• auxic / auxinic
• auxinome
• diauxic
• nonauxin

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