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An axon is a nerve fibre, "a single process extending from the cell body of a neurone and carrying nerve impulses away from it".

A nerve bundle is made up of hundreds or thousands of axons. A good factsheet can be found at www.ivy-rose.co.uk/Topics/Neurons.htm

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