Assertion: neuron | /r/CapableOf | conduct nerve impulses
Facets:
value: away from the cell body
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to muscles
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to other neurons
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to organs
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: : branched projections of a neuron that conduct the impulses received from other neural cells to the cell body axon : long slender projection of a nerve cell that conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, and organs
text: : long slender projection of a nerve cell that conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, and organs synapse: the junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass Neurons The nervous system of the common laboratory fly, Drosophila melanogaster, contains around 100,000 neurons, the same number as a lobster.