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Verified for the 2026 examโขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โข Last updated September 2025
Definition
Dendrites are the branched projections of a neuron that act to conduct the electrical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which the dendrites project.