An otter's den is called a holt or couch. Male otters are called dogs, females are called bitches, and their offspring are called pups. The collective nouns for otters are bevy, family, lodge, romp (being descriptive of their often playful nature) or, when in water, raft.
An axon (from Greek á¼Î¾ÏÎ½ Ã¡xÅn, axis), is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body. Axons are also known as nerve fibers. The function of the axon is to transmit information to different neurons, muscles and glands.
axon - the thin process of a neuron that is specialized to conduct action potentials away from the soma. axonal conduction - the conveyance of nerve impulses within nurons. base analog - a term from analogical reasoning that is also know as a source analog, this is the first fact that is given in the analogy. basilar membrane - one of the basic structures of the ear, this membrane subdivides the cochlea and the sound waves passing them to the hair cells.