PHYSIOLOGY
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
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Detailed explanation-1: -An axon, or nerve fibre, is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron’s cell body or soma. Axons are in effect the primary transmission lines of the nervous system, and as bundles, they help make up nerves.
Detailed explanation-2: -Axon. The axon is the elongated fiber that extends from the cell body to the terminal endings and transmits the neural signal.
Detailed explanation-3: -An axon is a long single fiber that transmits messages from the cell body to the dendrites of other neurons or to other body tissues, such as muscles.
Detailed explanation-4: -Within a cell, action potentials are triggered at the cell body, travel down the axon, and end at the axon terminal. The axon terminal has vesicles filled with neurotransmitters ready to be released. The space between the axon terminal of one cell and the dendrites of the next is called the synapse.