English > nerve fiber: 1 sense > noun 1, body| Meaning | A threadlike extension of a nerve cell. |
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| Synonym | nerve fibre |
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| Part of | nerve, nervus | Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body |
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| Parts | neurolemma, neurilemma | Thin membranous sheath around a nerve fiber |
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| Narrower | axon, axone | long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron |
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| dendrite | short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron |
| effector | A nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion |
| medullated nerve fiber, myelinated nerve fiber | A nerve fiber encased in a sheath of myelin |
| motor fiber, efferent fiber | A nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands |
| sensory fiber, afferent fiber | A nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system |
| Broader | fiber, fibre | Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) |
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| fiber, fibre | A slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
| Spanish | fibra nerviosa |
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| Catalan | fibra nerviosa |
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