Processes that branch from the cell body like the limbs of a tree, Called soma, it consists of a single nucleus surrounded by cytoplasm, where electrical impulses from the neuron travel away to be received by other neurons, Aka nodes of Ranvier; allow the generation of a fast electrical impulse along the axon, Arises from a cone-shaped region of the cell body, Found in the soma or body of the neuron, A type of glial cell that surrounds neurons, keeping them alive and sometimes covering them with a myelin sheath, Aka Nissl bodies is a large cluster of rough endoplasmic reticulum and free ribosomes that stain darkly with basic dyes., aka axon terminals; release the neurotransmitters of the presynaptic cell.

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