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number of neurons, or a considerable area of surface. The telodendrion 

 may terminate in minute knobs or plates, the neuropodia. The teloden- 

 drion is structurally apparently an efficient mechanism for mediating 



FIG. 144. GOLGI NERVE CELL, TYPE II. 

 a, axon; x, dendron. (After Kolliker.) 



the phenomenon of 'axon reflex' (Langley) . The parent stem of the axon 

 may be finally exhausted in its collaterals, or it may in turn end in a 

 terminal arborization. Collaterals are said to be more frequent in the 

 proximal than in the distal portion of the axon. The axon transmits 

 impulses away from the cell-body ; it is a cellulifugal process. 



