| Term: | cranial nerve X axon arborization |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | cranial nerve X |
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| Synonyms: | CN-X, vagal nerve, vagus nerve |
| Definition: | Cranial nerve that innervates gill muscles. Sometimes called a branchiomeric nerve because it innervates derivatives of the branchial arches. This nerve contains sensory axons that carry both somatic and visceral sensory information as well as motor axons from branchiomotor neurons. The root is typically found at either rhombomere 7 or rhombomere 8. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000453] |
| Name: | axon arborization |
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| Definition: | The process in which the terminal anatomical structures of an axon are generated and organized into branches of specialised projections, or boutons. An axon is the long process of a neuron that conducts nerve impulses, usually away from the cell body to the terminal branches. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0140060] QuickGO AmiGO |