• A long, branching outgrowth or extension from a neuron, that carries electrical signals from synapses to the cell body; any structure that resembles a dendrite.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• A neuron projection that has a short, tapering, morphology. Dendrites receive and integrate signals from other neurons or from sensory stimuli, and conduct nerve impulses 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.
  Gene Ontology Dictionary
  Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
• Cell appendage of a neuron that consists of the dendrite proper and the dendritic spines.
  Digital Anatomist
  University of Washington, 2003
• Neurite which has as its direct parts a dendrite proper and a set of dendritic spines.
  Foundational Model of Anatomy
  University of Washington, 2017
• One of the threadlike extensions of the cytoplasm of a neuron, which typically branch into tree-like processes; in unipolar and bipolar neurons, there is a single dendrite, which proximally resembles an axon but branches distally; in multipolar neurons there are many short, branching dendrites; dendrites compose most of the receptive surface of a neuron; called also dendron, neurodendrite, and neurodendron.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Extensions of the nerve cell body. They are short and branched and receive stimuli from other NEURONS.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• The parts of a nerve cell that receive signals from other nerve cells.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011