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Definition of Neurites
1. neurite [n] - See also: neurite
Medical Definition of Neurites
1. In tissue culture, hairlike projections of neurons stimulated by growth factors and other molecules. These projections may go on to form a branched tree of dendrites or a single axon or they may be reabsorbed at a later stage of development. "neurite" may refer to any filamentous or pointed outgrowth of an embryonal or tissue-culture neural cell. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neurites
Literary usage of Neurites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nervous System of Vertebrates by John Black Johnston (1906)
"In addition to (g) the pyramidal cells, whose form is well shown in the figure,
this layer contains several varieties of cells with short neurites, ..."
2. Clinical Therapeutics: Lectures in Practical Medicine : the Treatment of by Dujardin-Beaumetz (1885)
"... Copper—Pathogenic Medication—Essential Neuralgias—Bromide of
Potassium —neurites—Revulsion—Congestive Neuralgias—Aconite—Neuralgias by Anaemia— ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The neurites from the bases of the cells of Purkinje pass in regular order into
the ental white layer, but give oft", in their course, numerous collaterals ..."
4. A Course in Normal Histology: A Guide for Practical Instruction in Histology by Rudolf Krause (1913)
"These cells are very numerous, their neurites thus forming an important constituent
of the white matter of the spinal cord. For example, we know the ground ..."
5. The Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1905)
"tions suggest that the neurites of these cells end in relation with cells of ...
Other preparations show their neurites extending out into the substantia ..."
6. Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical Anatomy by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"In the anterior horn the following groups of cells can be distinguished: (i) The
large root-cells (a) situated anteriorly and laterally, from whose neurites ..."
7. Child Training as an Exact Science: A Treatise Based Upon the Principles of by George W. Jacoby (1914)
"But, in turn, the neurites, or longer strands of fibers which take their course
... Each nerve or ganglion cell, together with its dendrites and neurites, ..."
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