Axon vs Oxon - What's the difference?
axon | oxon |
(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.
(after a qualification) , used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
As nouns the difference between axon and oxon
is that axon is axon while oxon is (organic chemistry) any organic compound derived from another in which a phosphorus-sulfur bond in the parent has been replaced by a phosphorus-oxygen bond in the derivative.axon
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Alternative forms
* axoneNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* axonal * axonic * axotomy * axotomize * axonopathySee also
* dendrite * neuron * synapse ----oxon
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Etymology 1
(etyl)Etymology 2
(etyl)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The Crown Proceedings Act, 1947. By J. R. Bickford Smith, b.a. (Oxon ), of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law