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Part of a nerve cell or neuron. The dendrites
are slender filaments projecting from the
cell body. They receive incoming messages
from many other nerve cells and pass them on
to the cell body. If the combined effect of
these messages is strong enough, the cell
body will send an electrical impulse along
the axon (the threadlike extension of a nerve
cell). The tip of the axon passes its message
to the dendrites of other nerve cells.