How to pronounce“dendrite”in English
nounthat slow down the amount of neurotransmitters, either because they destroy neurotransmitters or they make it hard to create more. Or in some cases they go to the
dendrite of the neuron and they kind of put a paste over it so that the neurotransmitters can't connect.
And it's through these clever ways that neurons can affect your mental life.
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Definitions of “dendrite”
A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
“Little copses of television antennas. Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people.”
Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.