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Definition of Axons
1. axon [n] - See also: axon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Axons
Literary usage of Axons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Once the main outlines have been thoroughly mastered, it is easy enough to fill
in with finer matter. (a) Lesions Involving only the Medullated axons of the ..."
2. A Textbook of physiology by Winfield Scott Hall (1899)
"The dendrites are seldom straight in their course, usually irregular in direction,
in somewhat marked contrast to the axons. The branching of a dendrite may ..."
3. A Text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians by William Henry Howell (1913)
"They form one obvious means for crossed conduction in the cord, (c) Those whose
axons divide into two, one passing into the white matter of the same side, ..."
4. The History of England: As Well Ecclesiastical as Civil. By Mr. De Rapin by Rapin de Thoyras (Paul) (1726)
"... axons. TH E Anglo-Saxons brought with them from Germany, their own Country's
Virtues and Pices, ..."
5. An Outline of Psychobiology by Knight Dunlap (1914)
"The cells in the anterior part of this nucleus send axons to the intrinsic ...
The cells of the remainder of the nucleus send axons to certain extrinsic ..."
6. Operative Surgery by John Shelton Horsley (1921)
"It is not conceivable that the central end of the axons that are divided when
the flap is cut from the central stump can ever unite to any other axons. ..."
7. A text-book of mental diseases: with special reference to the pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1899)
"A further distinction is established by the fact that the axons of the granules
of the fascia dentata (moss fibres) are brought into close relationships ..."