different between dendrite vs neurofibril

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (dendrít?s, “of or pertaining to a tree”). Equivalent to dendr- +? -ite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?nd?a?t/

Noun

dendrite (plural dendrites)

1. (cytology) A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
   • 1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, pp. 12-13,^[1]

     Little copses of television antennas. Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people.

   • 1979, Carl Sagan, “Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt” in John Carey (ed.), Eyewitness to Science, Harvard University Press, 1997, p. 437,^[2]

     A typical brain neuron has perhaps a thousand little wires, called dendrites, which connect it with its fellows.

2. (cytology) Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.
3. (crystallography, metallurgy) Tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes
4. A hermit who lived in a tree

Derived terms

• dendritic

Translations

See also

• axon
• neuron
• synapse

Anagrams

• dirtened, tindered

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.d?it/

Noun

dendrite f (plural dendrites)

1. dendrite

Italian

Noun

dendrite m (plural dendriti)

1. dendrite (all senses)

See also

• dendrita

English

Etymology

neuro- +? fibril

Noun

neurofibril (plural neurofibrils)

1. (anatomy) Any of a group of microscopic fibrils through the body of a neuron that extend into the axon and dendrites

Translations