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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In neurology, having no dendrites: said of nerve-cells which have only the neuraxon or axis-cylinder process.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not having a branching structure, not tree-like.
  • adjective biology (of a neuron) Not having dendrites.
  • adjective biology (of other cells) Not having cytoplasmic processes.

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