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dendrite
  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
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “In the silver case, there is a particularly fine featherlike dendrite of native silver from the La Nevada mine, Chihuahua, Mexico.”
      “Each little bump or spine on each dendrite is a synaptic connection from another nerve cell axon terminal.”
      “In general, the signal travels across the synapse from the axon of one cell to the dendrite of the next.”
dendron
  1. (cytology) A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendrite.
  2. (chemistry) A section of a dendrimer that includes the central atom or group.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Stupp and his coworkers made the templates for the cadmium sulfide helices from molecules dubbed dendron rodcoils.”
      “There is in fact a tree Liriodendron called a Tulip Tree from lirion meaning a lily for the shape of the flower and dendron meaning tree.”
      “One of the ingredients is a large, branched molecule called a dendron, and the other is a linear polymer.”
dendrimer
  1. (chemistry) Any polymer or oligomer having branches of atoms strung off a central spine
  2. (mathematics) A graph formed of branches from a central core
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fiber probe documented a fourfold increase in tumor fluorescence in animals that received the targeted dendrimer.”
      “The drug delivery vehicle used by the scientists is a manmade polymer molecule called a dendrimer.”
      “During the event, numerous large water treatment plants were identified as prospective customers for PWT's dendrimer technology.”
dendrigraft
  1. (organic chemistry) A polymer, having the form of a dendrimer, that is constructed in stages by grafting pieces onto an existing structure.
dendrimersome
  1. (chemistry) A self-assembled structure, resembling a simple biological cell, consisting of a bilayer of dendrimers
dendrocyte
  1. (cytology) A dendritic cell that originates in bone marrow
dendrachate
  1. (mineralogy) An arborescent or dendritic agate.
dendritogenesis
  1. The formation of neural dendrites
dendrimersomes
  1. plural of dendrimersome
dendrigrafts
  1. plural of dendrigraft
dendrachates
  1. plural of dendrachate
dendrocytes
  1. plural of dendrocyte
dendrimers
  1. plural of dendrimer
dendrites
  1. plural of dendrite
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One is reminded of the famous fernlike markings on the Solnhofen fossils known as dendrites.”
      “All dendrites bear large numbers of spines, small excrescences on which incoming nerve fibres terminate to form synapses.”
      “Gray matter, made up of the bodies of nerve cells and their connecting dendrites, is where the brain's heavy lifting is done.”
dendrons
  1. plural of dendron
  2. Examples:
    1. “The contact of the axon of one neuron with the dendrons of another is called a synapse.”
      “It presupposes an active interposition of the glia cells between the axon of one neuron and the dendrons of another.”
      “They produced a branched vinyl polymer carrying dendrons, where the vinyl polymer is made from a monofunctional vinyl monomer.”
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