Definition of Axones

1. axone [n] - See also: axone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Axones

axon loss polyneuropathy
axon reflex
axon terminals
axonal
axonal degeneration
axonal guidance
axonal polyneuropathy
axonal process
axonal terminal boutons
axonal transport
axonally
axone
axonemal
axoneme
axonemes
axones (current term)
axonic
axonogenesis
axonography
axonometric
axonopathy
axonotmeses
axonotmesis
axonotmetic
axons
axopetal
axoplasm
axoplasmic
axoplasmic transport
axoplasmically

Literary usage of Axones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"Depending upon the presence or absence of a medullary sheath, axones may thus be divided into ... These are subdivided into non-medullated axones without a ..."

2. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"The ascending axones of this system collect the general bodily sensations ... (3) axones which serve to associate the different levels of the spinal cord. ..."

3. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"THE axis-cylinder processes or axones * of nerve cells differ markedly in many ways from the dendrites. The appearances presented by an axone in ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... with secondary destruction of myeline, sparing in great measure the axones and the nerve bodies. That the axones are preserved or at least are ..."

5. The Theory of Teaching and Elementary Psychology by Albert Salisbury (1905)
"Their functions are somewhat uncertain, including possibly that of nutrition in the service of the cell body, but probably that of conductivity also. axones ..."

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