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Word: Dendrite
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 18th century: from French, from Greek dendritēs ‘treelike’, from dendron ‘tree’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈdɛndrʌɪt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.
Short Definition:short branched extension of nerve cell
Definition:
a crystal or crystalline mass with a branching treelike structure.
Short Definition:crystal with branching treelike structure
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