The threadlike process of a neuron which conducts nerve impulses from the cell body to the neuron's ending (bouton) where it is transmitted via a synapse to another neuron, muscle or gland. Syn. nerve fibre (when it is sheathed). See neuron; synapse.
The Silk Road was a trade route that went from China to Eastern Europe. It went along the northern borders of China, India, and Persia and ended up in Eastern Europe near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. Not all that was traded along the Silk Road was good. 2  It is thought that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, traveled to Europe from the Silk Road. 3  Very few merchants traveled along the entire route. 4  Goods were traded at many cities and trade posts along the way.
The Silk Road (or Silk Route) was a network of caravan tracks that crossed Central and West Asia. The Silk Road was used to carry trade goods between Asia and Europe from the second century BCE until the fifteenth century CE. From a European perspective, the road (or roads) began in Rome and ended in Changâan (é·å®), China.