What is the space between a dendrite and an axon called?

Answer 1

The space between neuronal celll bodies is the extracellular space, which is filled with extracellular fluid. The space between neurons in contact with one another via a synapse is called a synaptic cleft.

Answer 2

The space between the output of a neuron, the axon, and the input of another neuron, a dendrite, is called a synapse.

While neurons do convey signals between one another, they do not do this by directly touching one another (except for some small molecules which keep them correctly in position, called synaptic adhesion molecules); rather, an output of a neuron, an axon terminal, releases chemicals called neurotransmitters into the gapbetween itself and a dendrite, called the synapse or synaptic cleft or synaptic gap. The neurotransmitters diffuse across the gap, and into receptors on the dendrite, which initiates a neural signal in the dendrites which moves down the dendrites, across the soma (body of the neuron), to the axon hillock(the part of the soma where the axon starts); if enough such signals arrive at about the same time there, either from many other dendrites or from many quick signals from one or more dendrites, then the summation of those signals can trigger an action potential in the axon, thus continuing the neural impulse.

In the form that the question was originally asked, "What is the space between the dendrites and axon in a neuron?", it should be noted that the structure physically between the dendrites (input) part of the neuron and the axon (output) part of the neuron is the body of the neuron, called the soma.

Answer 3

Submicroscopic space between axon and dendrites of two consecutive neurons is called a synapse , it is meant for conduction of nerve impulses .

Answer 4

Synapse.

Answer 5

Synapse

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