📚 noun • entry_id 27087
dendrite
/ˈdɛndɹaɪt/
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dendrita
A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
A typical brain neuron has perhaps a thousand little wires, called dendrites, which connect it with its fellows.
Little copses of television antennas. Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people.
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