axon

axon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Tagalog

Examples of axon in a sentence

• His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.
• Meanwhile, their caulescence distribution falls above both axons and dendrites, similar to maximum branch order.
• Notice that because of the assumed symmetric axon model azimuthial symmetry is assumed.

All 11 example sentences with axon

Forms of axon

Plural of axon: axons

Origin of axon

Derived from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”). Via Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- cognate with inherited English axle and other borrowed axis, aisle, ala, atelier.

English surname, from the Middle English personal name Ackeson, equivalent to Acke (a pet form of Adam) + -son. The first element could also be from a variant of the female name Agatha, see also Agate.

Words formed from axon

• axipetal
• axogenesis
• axonal
• axon hillock
• axonic
• axonless
• axonocentric
• axonogenesis
• axonography
• axonopathy
• axonotrophic
• axonotrophy
• axopetal
• axotomize
• axotomy
• diaxon
• mesaxon
• monaxon
• monoaxon
• motoraxon
• pioneer axon
• triaxon

Related words

• dendrite
• neurite
• neuron
• synapse

Phrases with axon

• axon hillocks

Questions about axon

What does axon mean?

Axon means a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

What is axon in Hindi?

Axon in Hindi is अक्षतंतु (akṣatantu). See Axon meaning in Hindi.

What part of speech is axon?

Axon can be a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce axon?

Axon is pronounced /ˈæksɒn/.

What is the plural of axon?

The plural of axon is axons.