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and the neuraxon or axis-cylinder process, which is continued on to form 

 what is known as a nerve-fibre. The nerve-cell is often spoken of as in- 



Fig. 104. Large nerve cells with processes, from the ventral cornua of the cord of man, X 350. 

 On the cell at the right two short processes of the cell-body are present, one or the other of which 

 may. have been an axis-cylinder process (Deitersi. A similar process appears also on the cell at 

 theleft. 



eluding the cell-body and its dendrites and the axis-cylinder process for 

 a short distance. Strictly speaking, however, the name should be ap- 



Fig. 104A. Multipolar nerve-cell of the cord of an embryo catf. 



plied only to the body of the cell. The nerve-cell is provided with a very 

 large round nucleus in which one or more nucleoli are visible (fig. 104). 



