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one of the threadlike extensions of the cytoplasm of a neuron, which typically branch into tree-like processes; in unipolar and bipolar neurons, there is a single dendrite, which proximally resembles an axon but branches distally; in multipolar neurons there are many short, branching dendrites; dendrites compose most of the receptive surface of a neuron; called also dendron, neurodendrite, and neurodendron.
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