neural pathways ....
.... when the (colour inverted) woodland canopy looks like a bunch of 'dendrons' and 'dendrites, it's easy to see where they got their name (dendrites : Greek : treelike).
When I saw this image, I immediately thought of images I've seen of neural pathways in the brain, and words like 'dendron' and and 'dendrite' and synapse came into my mind. So, I did some googling. Wiki says:
Dendrites (from Greek δένδρον déndron, "tree"), also dendrons, are branched protoplasmic extensions of a nerve cell that propagate the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which the dendrites project.
It's obvious!!!!
neural pathways ....
.... when the (colour inverted) woodland canopy looks like a bunch of 'dendrons' and 'dendrites, it's easy to see where they got their name (dendrites : Greek : treelike).
When I saw this image, I immediately thought of images I've seen of neural pathways in the brain, and words like 'dendron' and and 'dendrite' and synapse came into my mind. So, I did some googling. Wiki says:
Dendrites (from Greek δένδρον déndron, "tree"), also dendrons, are branched protoplasmic extensions of a nerve cell that propagate the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which the dendrites project.
It's obvious!!!!