Diagram of a Multipolar Neuron

Can you label the following structures and explain their function/significance?

  1. Cell body or soma
  2. Nucleus
  3. Dendrites
  4. Synapse
  5. Axon
  6. Axon collateral
  7. Myelin sheath
  8. Nodes of Ranvier
  9. Terminal arborizations
  10. Terminal buttons

Can you indicate the direction of conduction in this neuron?

Can you draw a synapse and label and explain the function/significance of the following structures?

  1. terminal button
  2. synaptic vesicle
  3. synaptic cleft

Can you explain why this neuron is called "multipolar" and not "unipolar" or "bipolar"?

Here is a second diagram you may want to study

diagram of a neuron

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