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What carries messages to the cell body of a neuron?
The dendrites carry messages toward the nerve cell body, or center of the neuron. The axon carries messages away from the cell body.
What transmit messages away from the cell body?
The axon conducts messages away from the cell body.
What are the thin fibers of the human nervous system that send messages between different parts of the body?
Neurons send signals to other cells through thin fibers called axons, which cause chemicals known as neurotransmitters to be released at junctions called synapses, the NIH noted. There are over 100 trillion neural connections in the average human brain, though the number and location can vary.
What are short fibers that bring electrical signals to the cell body?
There are two different kinds of nerve fibres: fibres that carry information towards the cell body, called dendrites, and fibres that carry information away from it, called axons. Nerves are tight bundles of nerve fibres.
What are the thin fibers that send messages?
A single nerve cell (neuron) has many branches extending from it. The shorter branches (dendrites) are for receiving signals from other nerve cells. The single long branch (axon) is for sending signals. Axons are the thin fibers that are bundled up together to send messages around your body.
What are the nerve fibers?
A nerve fiber is a long process of nerve cell (neurone) called the axon. The nerve cell’s body is anatomically situated in the central nervous system or within the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system. Each peripheral nerve consists of parallel bundles of nerve fibers, called nerve fascicles.
What is dendritic agate?
Dendritic Agate, sometimes called Tree Agate, is not banded, and therefore not strictly an Agate in scientific terms but is included in the Agate family. These Agates are usually colorless, white, or gray, and have tree- or fern-like inclusions of iron or manganese, called dendrites.