Axon
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Example:
Imagine you're trying to send a message to a friend who lives across town using a long piece of string and two cups, like an old-fashioned telephone. The string acts much like an axon in a neuron, serving as the pathway that carries your spoken message from your cup to your friend's cup. Just as the string carries the vibrations of your voice over a distance, the axon transmits electrical signals away from the nerve cell body to communicate with other neurons or muscles. In both cases, the goal is to ensure the message travels efficiently from the sender to the receiver, highlighting the axon's role as the messenger pathway in the nervous system.
Practice Version
Axon: An extension of the neuron that carries messages away from the nerve cell body. Axon. An axon is a part of a nerve cell that helps send information to other cells.