axon

• axone (dated)

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).

axon (plural axons)

1. (cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

• (nerve fibre): neuronal process, neurite, nerve fibre

• noxa

• IPA^(key): [ˈakson]

axon m inan

1. axon

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• axon in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

From scientific Latin axon, from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒkson]
• Hyphenation: axon
• Rhymes: -on

axon (plural axonok)

1. (cytology) axon (a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse)

   Synonym: tengelyfonál

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.soːn/, [ˈäks̠oːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.son/, [ˈäkson]

axōn m (genitive axonis); third declension

1. a line on a sundial (or its axis)
2. the axis of a ballista

Third-declension noun.

• “axon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “axon”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From French axone.

axon m (plural axoni)

1. axon