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noun
1.
Petrology, Mineralogy.
a.
a branching figure or marking, resembling moss or a shrub or tree in form, found on or in certain stones or minerals due to the presence of a foreign material.
b.
any arborescent crystalline growth.
2.
Anatomy. the branching process of a neuron that conducts impulses toward the cell.
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Dendrite
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
dendrite
1727, from Gk. dendrites "of or pertaining to a tree," from dendron "tree."
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Medical Dictionary
dendrite den·drite (děn'drīt')
n.
Any of the various branched protoplasmic extensions of a nerve cell that conducts impulses from adjacent cells inward toward the cell body. Also called dendritic process, dendron, neurodendrite, neurodendron.
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