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terminal fibril

One of numerous branched endings of an axon.

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:

axon terminals

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pl.n.

The somewhat enlarged, often club-shaped endings by which axons make synaptic contacts with other nerve cells or with effector cells. Also called end-feet, neuropodia, terminal boutons.

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