Associations to the word «Dendrite»

Wiktionary

DENDRITE, noun. (cytology) A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
DENDRITE, noun. (cytology) Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.
DENDRITE, noun. (crystallography) (metallurgy) tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes
DENDRITE, noun. A hermit who lived in a tree

Dictionary definition

DENDRITE, noun. Short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca