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What does a neuron look like?

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Neuron or a nerve cell looks like a star-shaped cell with a tail.Neurons are the basic units of the nervous system and its most important part is the brain. Every neuron is made of a cell body (also called a soma), dendrites and an axon. Dendrites and axons are nerve fibers.

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