neurodendron


dendrite

 [den´drīt] any of the threadlike extensions of the cytoplasm of a neuron; they typically branch into treelike processes, and compose most of the receptive surface of a neuron.Dendrites in a multipolar neuron. From Dorland's, 2000.

den·drite

(den'drīt), 1. One of the two types of branching protoplasmic processes of the nerve cell (the other being the axon). Synonym(s): dendritic process, dendron, neurodendrite, neurodendron2. A crystalline treelike structure formed during the freezing of an alloy. [G. dendritēs, relating to a tree]

neurodendrite

, neurodendron (nu?ro-den'drit) (-dron) [Gr. neuron, nerve, sinew, + dendron, tree] Cytoplasmic branched process of a nerve cell. See: dendrite for illus