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Axons are distinguished from dendrites by several features, including shape ( dendrites often taper while axons usually maintain a constant radius ), length ( dendrites are restricted to a small region around the cell body while axons can be much longer ), and function ( dendrites usually receive signals while axons usually transmit them ).
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Axons are in effect the primary transmission lines of the nervous system, and as bundles they help make up nerves.
Axons and dendrites in the central nervous system are typically only about one micrometer thick, while some in the peripheral nervous system are much thicker.
Axons are stretched and damaged when parts of the brain of differing density slide over one another.
Axons from the lower body are most medial ( closer to the midline ), and run in the gracile tract of the spinal column.
Axons swell at some sites and are compressed at others, leading to a beaded appearance.
Axons and from
Axons from the facial nerve loop around the abducens nucleus, creating a slight bulge ( the facial colliculus ) that is visible on the dorsal surface of the floor of the fourth ventricle.
Axons from the olfactory sensory neurons converge in the olfactory bulb to form tangles called glomeruli ( singular glomerulus ).
* During the Brigadier ’ s flashback he sees Yeti ( The Web of Fear ), Cybermen ( The Invasion ), the Second Doctor ( The Three Doctors ), the Axons ( The Claws of Axos ), Daleks ( Day of the Daleks ), the Third Doctor ( Spearhead from Space ), the First Doctor ( The Three Doctors ), the K1 robot ( Robot ), a Zygon ( Terror of the Zygons ), the Fourth Doctor, and finally himself from The Three Doctors.
Axons following the posterior pathway turn dorsally from the midline at the posterior side of the thalamus, entering the thalamus from various positions.
Axons and by
Axons transmit signals to other neurons by means of specialized junctions called synapses.
The drink transforms children into Axons by " increasing the links between neurons in the brain "-in other words, the axons.
Axons and several
Axons in the CNS typically model complex trees with several branch points.
Axons and often
Axons often follow very precise paths in the nervous system, and how they manage to find their way so accurately is being researched.
Axons and usually
Axons make contact with other cells — usually other neurons but sometimes muscle or gland cells — at junctions called synapses.
Axons and body
Axons frequently travel through the body in bundles called nerves.
Axons leaving the ventral cochlear nucleus ( VCN ) form a broad pathway that crosses under the brain stem in the trapezoid body.
are and distinguished
There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished, so most notably in the statement: `` If the ( Holy ) Spirit is absent from the soul, such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; ;
Algerian music is a perfect reflection of the cultural diversity that characterizes the country, music directories are distinguished by a profusion of several styles.
Follow-up tests are often distinguished in terms of whether they are planned ( a priori ) or post hoc.
Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts.
They are distinguished by the nerve cells affected ( upper and lower motor neuron ), and the symptoms that result from this damage:
" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.
Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold crozier with a veil attached and a black galero with twelve tassels ( the galero of a territorial abbot would be green )
Nevertheless, one has to keep in mind that electrons are fermions ruled by the Pauli exclusion principle and cannot be distinguished from the other electrons in the atom.
Science and non-science are often distinguished by the criterion of falsifiability.
Many letters look similar but are distinguished from one another by dots () above or below their central part, called.
The opposing armies are distinguished by the colors of their uniforms: Darius ' army in red and Alexander's in blue.
The Acantharea are a group of radiolarian protozoa, distinguished mainly by their skeletons.
The types of cannon artillery are generally distinguished by the velocity at which they fire projectiles.
Rav had many sons, several of whom are mentioned in the Talmud, the most distinguished being the eldest, Chiyya.
When debates polarise between techniques, the methods are often referred to by a colour code, based on the colours of the bindings of the two volumes from the first Oxford Conference, where the approaches were first distinguished.
The throwing-lance may be distinguished from a harpoon because of the fact that all its pieces are fixed and immovable.
In Danish and most southern varieties of German, the " lenis " consonants transcribed for historical reasons as are distinguished from their fortis counterparts, mainly in their lack of aspiration.
Brachiopods, generally thought to be closely related to bryozoans and phoronids, are distinguished by having shells rather like those of bivalves.
Lateritic bauxites ( silicate bauxites ) are distinguished from karst bauxite ores ( carbonate bauxites ).
Russian loans are distinguished from Old Bulgarian ones on the basis of the presence of specifically Russian phonetic changes, as in оборот ( turnover, rev ), непонятен ( incomprehensible ), ядро ( nucleus ) and others.
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This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
At least a dozen men, some armed, are never far away from him.
Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.
Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.
The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.
In fact, insofar as science generates any fear, it stems not so much from scientific prowess and gadgets but from the fact that new unanswered questions arise, which, until they are understood, create uncertainty.
Apart from the categorical imperative they derive from the metaphysics of the orgasm, the only affirmation they are capable of making is that art is their only refuge.
The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.
The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.
So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.
Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.
Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.
These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.
Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.
The student of ideas and their place in history will always be concerned with the patterns of transition, which are at the same time patterns of transformation, whereby ideas pass from one area of activity to another.
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