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Give the technical term for the following:

The long-term extension from the cell body of a motor neuron.


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Neurons:

  1. Neurons in the spinal cord and brain are specialized types of brain cells called motor neurons.
  2. The axon is a long extension structure that originates from the soma.
  3. The axon's job is to send the information it receives down the neuron's body to the dendrites at the end.

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