A branching part of a nerve cell (neuron) that receives signals from other neurons, or more generally, any tree-like branching structure.
Directly from Greek 'dendron' (tree). In neurobiology, the term was chosen because these nerve extensions branch like tree limbs.
Your brain's dendrons are so densely branched that a single neuron can receive signals from 5,000 other neurons—creating a more complex network than all the world's computers combined!
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