Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the delicate, ultimate branches of a nerve-cell process.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded
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Examples
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Astrocytes (white arrowheads), neuropile (dashed circle), and a neuron (yellow arrow) are indicated.
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(the first optic neuropile), and long visual fibres, which project directly to the medulla
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