No, axons carry impulses away from the nerve cell body.
Nerve cells carry the impulses around the body to the motor neurons. Nerve impulses are received and transmitted to the cell body by axons.
Axons carry messages away from the nerve cell body toward the synapse. These long fibers transmit electrical impulses and release neurotransmitters at the synapse to communicate with other cells.
Short branched extensions that carry impulses towards the nerve cell body are called dendrites.
nerve impulses
Some nerve cells have fibers that grow out of the cell, which are called axons. Axons allow a nerve cell to connect to distant parts of the body, so that cells in the brain can send messages to, and receive messages from a toe, for example, which might be six feet away from the brain. Other nerve cells just connect to their immediate neighboring nerve cells, and therefore do not require axons; they instead have smaller extensions called dendrites.
axons
'Axons'
Axons are part of nerve tissue, which is found within the nervous system. Nerve tissue is composed of neurons that contain axons for carrying nerve impulses.
optic nerve
Olfactory Nerve
There is one way conduction of impulse into the neuron, from dendrites to nerve body to axon.
The olfactory nerve carries impulses from odor-detecting cells to the brain.