multipolar neuron

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A neuron with one axon and three or more dendrites.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

We must recognize the challenges that the new multipolar world poses.
Goodbye, Blue: A Post-Obama Democratic Doctrine|Doug Schoen, Jessica Tarlov|November 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Aren't all facts, at the neuron and synapse level, really the same?
Sorry, Folks, Playing Dots Won’t Make You Smarter|Kent Sepkowitz|June 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Hawking, 71, has been suffering from the debilitating motor neuron disease ALS for half a century.
A Brief History of Hawking’s Boycott|Matthew Kalman|May 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The current issue of Neuron features a new study on selective memory erasure.
How to Erase Your Memories|Casey Schwartz|November 7, 2008|DAILY BEAST

Machines having more than two poles in each part are called multipolar machines.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1900|Various
These are transferred from neuron to neuron through the synapse.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh
Even though the peripheral neuron may be suffering to some extent, this is true.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh
The contact of the axon of one neuron with the dendrons of another is called a synapse.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh
That is not a loss of memory but a failure of neuron connections.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh