The two main types of processes that arise from the neuron’s cell body are a single long part called the axon and many short, branched parts called dendrites.
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The cells of the nervous tissue are called nerve cells or neurons.
The brain, spinal cord, and nerves are composed of nervous tissue.
Nervous tissue cells are highly specialized for being stimulated and then transmitting the stimulus very rapidly from one place to another within the body.
Heart muscle cells are cylindrical, branched, and uninucleate (having a single nucleus).