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Dendrites are important in neurology because they receive electric impulses and are essential for nerve cells.

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The branch that carries messages to the cell body is called the?

Dendrite!


What is terminal branch of axon?

dendrite


Part of the nerve cell that first receives the nervous impulse is the?

The dendrite of a neuron usually receives a chemical signal from another neuron, although a cell body (soma), or sometimes even an axon, of another neuron can receive the signal.Synapses which occur between an axon and a dendrite are called axodendritic synapses, while synapses between an axon and a cell body are called axosomatic synapses, and synapses between an axon and an axon are called axoaxonic synapses.


The structure that recevies an impulse from the dendrite is the?

Cell body.Impulses a received in the dendrite, go through the cell body and out to the axon, where they are transmitted to the next dendrite. Easy way to remember it, it's the alphabet backwards - Dendrite, Cell Body, Axon


What is the longest dendrite of a neuron?

the longest dendrite is I don't know this /;[


When did David the Dendrite die?

David the Dendrite died in 540.


What is an antonym for dendrite?

Dendrite is a noun; nouns don't have antonyms.


What is the tissue that receives stimuli and conducts nerve impulses?

these are wire-like projections from the main cell body, which are often further branched and carry impulses to the cell body. theses are called dendrites.


What tissue is the effector?

dendrite, cell body, axon dendrite, cell body, axon


How does a message travel through a single neuron?

When a message gets sent to a neuron from the dendrite it goes through the cell body to the tip of the dendrite where it leaps to the next dendrite.


What is the plural of dendrite?

dendrites


Who was dendrite's partner?

axon