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a nerve cell can be metres long so it has more area to Cary the nerve impulse away from the cell body.
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∙ 9y agoThere are close to 45 miles of nerves running from head to toe in the body. There are 43 pairs of nerves in this system.
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∙ 10y agoThe total length of the veins/nurves in the human body is approximately 60,000/- miles.
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∙ 11y agoAbout 45 miles of nerves in a humam body
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∙ 14y ago5 km
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What type of cell is the longest in the human body?
The longest cells are neurons (nerve cells) with a length of 90cm-100cm linking the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) to other parts of the body.
What is the cell body of the nerve cell?
An axon is the long extension of a nerve cell body. The dendrites are the short branches.
What is the greatest human cell in length?
The longest human cell are nerve cells in the human body. Some of them run the length of the spine all the way to the toes and may be as long as 1.5m in length.
What is the long thin extension of the cell body of a neuron which is the conductor of nerve impulses?
An axon is the long extension of a nerve cell body. The dendrites are the short branches.
How does a nerve cell function in a human?
The function of a nerve cell is to carry messages around someones body. To adapt to their job, they're very long and are branched at each end. Nerve cells also receive, carry and pass electrical impulses through someones body.
Axon is what?
An axon (or axone) is a nerve fibre which is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
How is it that the shape can adapted to carry messages around the body?
Nerve cells have many adaptations to their function. The basic function of a nerve cell is to deliver a message to the next nerve cell in order to send information across the body. It has long axon that deliver an action potentially a long way.
What is the 3 main parts of nerve cells?
The three basic parts of a nerve cell are the dendrites, cell body, and axon. The dendrites branch to reach other cells. The cell body contains the nucleus which controls the cell. The axon is long and provides "reach" for the cell.
What is an axiscylinder?
An axiscylinder is another term for an axis cylinder, also known as an axon, a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of a cell to a synapse.
What are the cells found in the human body?
In the human body we have lots of cells. Red blood cell's-this has a dip on it to carry oxygen around the body. The cell is blood White blood cell's-helps us when were sick. It fights the germs. Nerve cell's-is long and thin and it looks like an electric shock. It carries out reactions Sperm cell's-are found in male and helps make reproduction egg cell-found in a female and helps to make reproduction
Why do nerve cells have long fibers whereas red blood cells are thin and disklike?
Nerve cells have to be long enough to extend from where they are located in the body, the hands and feet for example, to the spinal chord or brain. Some nerve cells in a giraffe may be ten feet long. Others may be very short.
Microscopic fiber that carries the nervous impulse along nerve cell?
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.
