name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
axon
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈæksɒn/
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CMU ARPABET: AE1 K S AA2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: axone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nerve fiber, nerve fibre
History
Etymology
English surname, from the Middle English personal name Ackeson, equivalent to Acke (a pet form of Adam) + -son. The first element could also be from a variant of the female name Agatha, see also Agate.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h2eḱs-der. Proto-Hellenic *aksōn Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn)der. English axon Derived from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”). Via Proto-Indo-European *h2eḱs- cognate with inherited English axle and other borrowed axis, aisle, ala, atelier.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: аксон (akson) — a nerve fibre
- Catalan: àxon — a nerve fibre
- Catalan: axó — a nerve fibre
- Chinese Mandarin: 軸突 /轴突 (zhóutū) — a nerve fibre
- Czech: axon — a nerve fibre
- Dutch: axon — a nerve fibre
- Finnish: aksoni — a nerve fibre
- Finnish: viejähaarake — a nerve fibre
- French: axone — a nerve fibre
- German: Axon — a nerve fibre
- Greek: άξων (áxon) — a nerve fibre
- Hindi: अक्षतंतु (akṣatantu) — a nerve fibre
- Hungarian: axon — a nerve fibre
- Indonesian: akson — a nerve fibre
- Irish: néarshnáithín — a nerve fibre
- Irish: acsón — a nerve fibre
- Italian: assone — a nerve fibre
- Japanese: 軸索 (jikusaku) — a nerve fibre
- Northern Kurdish: tewere — a nerve fibre
- Northern Kurdish: rîşaledemar — a nerve fibre
- Malay: akson — a nerve fibre
- Marathi: अक्षतंतु (akṣatantu) — a nerve fibre
- Polish: akson — a nerve fibre
- Polish: neuryt — a nerve fibre
- Brazilian Portuguese: axônio — a nerve fibre
- European Portuguese: axónio — a nerve fibre
- Romanian: axon — a nerve fibre
- Russian: аксо́н (aksón) — a nerve fibre
- Spanish: axón — a nerve fibre
- Spanish: cilindroeje — a nerve fibre
- Spanish: neurita — a nerve fibre
- Swedish: axon — a nerve fibre
- Swedish: nervfiber — a nerve fibre
- Tagalog: sulid ng dagandam — a nerve fibre
- Turkish: akson — a nerve fibre
- Vietnamese: sợi trục — a nerve fibre