Etymology

dendron

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Today it means: A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendrite. Full definition →

Ancient Greek δένδρον
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dendron · noun1

Coined from dendrite by E. A. Schäfer in 1893, by analogy with neuron.

Dendron · proper noun2

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromδένδρον“tree”
  2. English todayDendron

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekδένδρον all →

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