Peter Breggin: New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression The word dendrite means fingers the organic glue and the surfactant used to shape the Clay NanoSheets used in this hydrogel both have fingers that reach out and grab the nearby elements, holding it all together.Ī dendrite is a projection from a neuron that receives signals from the axons of its neighbors.Īt the initial contact, the connection-the synapse-is quite weak the dendrite can easily detach and hunt for another neuron.īased on rat studies, they hypothesize that ' dendrite arborization' - an increased branching growth of nerve cells - caused by chronic antidepressant exposure, may be the cause.ĭr. noun short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron.noun crystallography, metallurgy tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizesįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.The axon conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body dendrites conduct. noun cytology Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system. In a typical neuron, one axon and many dendrites extend from the cell body.noun cytology A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell a dendron.g., gold or silver an arborization.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun (Min.) A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e.noun A complex crystalline growth of arborescent form, such as is common with metallic silver and copper.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A stone or a mineral on or in which are figures resembling shrubs, trees, or mosses.noun In neural., one of the protoplasmic processes of a nerve-cell: opposed to * neurite, the axis-cylinder.The transfer of information from one neuron to another is achieved through chemical signals and electric impulses, that is, electrochemical signals. A single nerve may possess many dendrites. Dendrites are projections of a neuron (nerve cell) that receive signals (information) from other neurons. noun A branched protoplasmic extension of a nerve cell that conducts impulses from adjacent cells inward toward the cell body.

noun A rock or mineral bearing such a mark or marks.noun A mineral crystallizing in another mineral in the form of a branching or treelike mark.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

A dendrite conducts nerve impulses