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An axon or nerve fiber is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma.
Axons are in effect the primary transmission lines of the nervous system, and as bundles they help make up nerve. Individual axons are microscopic in diameter (typically about 1μm across), but may be up to multiple feet long. The longest axons in the human body, for example, are those of the sciatic nerve, which run from the base of the...
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