drain verb (REMOVE LIQUID) C2 [ I or T ] If you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow away, and if something drains, liquid flows away or out of it: Drain the pasta thoroughly. We drained the pond and filled it with fresh water. Drain (off) any liquid that is left in the rice.
The process was discovered during Rolls's studies aimed at deciphering the inner workings of dendrites -- the part of the neuron that receives information from other cells and from the outside world. The research will be published in the print edition of the scientific journal Current Biology on 21 December 2010.
1 Each branch is called a dendrite. 2  Dendrites receive information from other neurons or from sense organs. 3  The single long fiber that extends from the neuron is called an axon. 4  Axons send information to other neurons, to muscle cells, or to gland cells.5  What we call nerves are bundles of axons coming from many neurons.eurons receive information, integrate it, and pass it along. They communicate with one another, with cells in the sensory organs, and with muscles and glands. Each neuron has the same structure: 1  Each neuron has a soma, or cell body, which is the central area of the neuron.