Neuron vs. Axon — What's the Difference?

A neuron or nerve cell is an electrically excitable cell that communicates with other cells via specialized connections called synapses. It is the main component of nervous tissue in all animals except sponges and placozoa.

An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis), or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences), is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body. The function of the axon is to transmit information to different neurons, muscles, and glands.

Any of the impulse-conducting cells that constitute the brain, spinal column, and nerves in vertebrates, consisting of a nucleated cell body with one or more dendrites and a single axon.

The long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.

A similar impulse-conducting cell in invertebrates.In both senses also callednerve cell.

The usually long process of a nerve fiber that generally conducts impulses away from the body of the nerve cell.

(cytology) A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.

(cytology) 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.

(zoology) A nervure of an insect's wing.

Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron

(artificial intelligence) an artificial neuron mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network

The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon.

The characteristic specialized cell that is part of the nervous system, serving to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain, and also between other parts of the body, and composed of a main cell body, the axon, with a varying number of processes of varying length, the dendrites; a nerve cell. The movement and behavior of higher animals depends on the signals tranmsitted by such nerve cells.

A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses