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Nerve cells are neurons. The nervous system has a large number of neurons, and the connections between neurons are only in contact with each other, but there is no protoplasmic continuity. Typical neuron dendrites are short and many branches. Axons tend to be very long and acquire myelin sheaths after they have left the cell body some distance, becoming nerve fibers.