part of ends during starts during death neuron dendrite A neuron projection that has a short, tapering, often branched, morphology, receives and integrates signals from other neurons or from sensory stimuli, and conducts a nerve impulse towards the axon or the cell body. In most neurons, the impulse is conveyed from dendrites to axon via the cell body, but in some types of unipolar neuron, the impulse does not travel via the cell body. XAO:0005016 GO:0030425 eriksegerdell 2015-05-14T19:12:27Z xenopus_anatomy neuron projection NF stage 15