The axon, also called the nerve fiber, is the part of the nerve cell (neuron) which transmits nervous impulses. The axon leaves the nerve cell body (or soma) at an area called the axon hillock. Little offshoots from the axon are called axon...

Nerve fibers (axons) are often covered by a special insulating layer called the myelin sheath. This covering is composed of the membranes of specialized cells called oligodendrocytes (in the brain and spinal cord, or central nervous system) and Schwann...

These are FIBRES involved in the sensation of PAIN. A-delta (δ) fibres are small myelinated (see MYELIN) fibres; A-alpha (α) and A-beta (β) fibres are larger than delta and are also myelinated. The delta fibres, like the unmyelinated C...

The axon is the process of a NEURON whose function is to conduct action potentials. Unlike a DENDRITE, a neuron usually has only one axon. Axons can be myelinated (see MYELIN) or unmyelinated, and myelinated axons can conduct action potentials faster...

The part of a nerve cell that conducts nervous impulses away from the nerve cell body to the remainder of the cell (i.e., dendrites); large number of fibrils enveloped by a segmented myelin sheath (Figure...

A rarely used term: the telodendria are the small branches that occur at the end of an AXON as it ramifies, each AXON TERMINAL making synaptic contacts (see SYNAPSE) with other...

An axon or nerve fiber, is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or...