GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -While dendrites are the branched threadlike projections, the axon is a single, slender, longer fiber of a neuron. It is also called a nerve fiber. The function of the axon is to carry efferent (outgoing) action potentials and conduct nerve impulse away from the cell body to a synapse.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fine branches at the end of axon are called as axon terminals, which can make contact with other neurons or effector cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although neuroscientists typically draw neurons with a single unbranched axon and one presynaptic terminal, most axons are extensively branched into terminal arbors, often producing hundreds or thousands of presynaptic terminals (Fig.