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What is a dendrite?

What is a dendrite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cytology) A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
  2. (cytology) Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.
  3. (crystallography, metallurgy) tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes
  4. A hermit who lived in a tree
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The dendrite problem, meanwhile, can be ameliorated by adding carbon to the electrode where the lithium is deposited.
The foundryman can control the fineness of dendrite structure by controlling the rate of solidification.
In general, the signal travels across the synapse from the axon of one cell to the dendrite of the next.
Her cheeks were beginning to sprout silica flakes and dendrite fibres, but from a distance she just looked, she thought, like a lumpy old woman.
Each little bump or spine on each dendrite is a synaptic connection from another nerve cell axon terminal.
The space between cells that is occupied by axonal and dendrite endings is called neuropile.

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