meaning of dendrites
1. A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g. , gold or silver; an arborization.
2. short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron
Related Words
dendrite | dendritic | dendritical |