Q.Describe the structure of multipolar neuron.

Step 1. A multipolar neuron has a star-shaped cyton (cell body) containing granular neuroplasm, a central nucleus, a nucleolus, and RNA-rich Nissl's granules.

Step 2. From this cyton arise more than two processes: several short, branching dendrons, ending in finer branches called dendrites, which carry impulses toward the cyton.

Step 3. Of all the processes given off, only one is an axon — a single, long, cylindrical process arising from a funnel-shaped region of the cyton called the axon hillock, bounded by the axolemma and filled with axoplasm carrying mitochondria and neurofibrils. …

Work outward from the cyton, describing the multiple dendrons, the single axon and its coverings, in the order the …

• Describing only the general neuron structure (cyton/dendron/axon) without stating the defining multipolar feature — more than two processes with exactly one being the axon. …