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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King