Axon vs Agon - What's the difference?
axon | agon |
(cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
A two-player boardgame played with a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times. Also known as queen's guard.
As a noun axon
is axon.As a proper noun agon is
.axon
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Alternative forms
* axoneNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* axonal * axonic * axotomy * axotomize * axonopathySee also
* dendrite * neuron * synapse ----agon
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Noun
(wikipedia agon) (en-noun)- “Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology” (Harold Bloom).