DENDRITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dendrite mean? 

• DENDRITE (noun)
  The noun DENDRITE has 1 sense:

1. short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron

  Familiarity information: DENDRITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENDRITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("dendrite" is a kind of...):

nerve fiber; nerve fibre (a threadlike extension of a nerve cell)

Holonyms ("dendrite" is a part of...):

nerve cell; neuron (a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses)

Derivation:

dendritic ((neuroscience) of or relating to or resembling a dendrite)

 Context examples 

Intermediate filaments of neurons which add rigidity, tensile strength, and possibly intracellular transport guidance to axons and dendrites.

(Neurofilament, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Cells in both structures differentiate into various glial cells and immature neurons that migrate; differentiate axons, dendrites, and synapses; and mature.

(Nervous System Development, NCI Thesaurus)

A neuron consists of a cell body and its processes, an axon and one or more dendrites.

(Neurons, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A dense intricate feltwork of interwoven fine glial processes, fibrils, synaptic terminals, axons, and dendrites interspersed among the nerve cells in the gray matter of the central nervous system.

(Neuropil, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A cluster of neuronal cell bodies and their dendrites located just ventral and lateral to the spinal cord that give rise to the sympathetic nervous system.

(Para-Spinal Ganglion, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This gene is involved in the regulation of axon and dendrite diameter.

(NEFM Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Melanin-containing melanosomes then move from the perinuclear region to the dendrite tips and are transferred to keratinocytes by a still not well-characterized mechanism.

(Melanogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

It is also involved in promoting the growth of dendrites.

(BMP6 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A synapse between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron.

(Axodendritic Synapse, NCI Thesaurus)

A retinal neuron that lacks large axons, having only processes that resemble dendrites.

(Amacrine Cell, NCI Thesaurus)