dendra

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A form of dendron — A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendrite.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluraluncommonplural of dendron

    Not only did he trace these fibrils from the dendritic processes to the axis cylinder process, but also from one dendron to other dendra.

    1907, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing Papers of a Biological Character, page lxiii
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    Also, if X is the topological sum of finitely many dendra, then λX is a Q-manifold; in fact it is a topological sum of finitely many Hilbert cubes.

    1977, Mathematical Centre Tracts, page 187

    Individual planar dendra consist of a central rod from which branches and sub-branches have grown, each at about 60° to the parent branch (fig 1).

    1982, Mineralogical Magazine, page 372

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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