Terms with definitions that are too vertebrate specific for their names: Terms with definitions that are too vertebrate specific for their names:

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For invertebrate neurons, we need basic morphological classification of neurons 
to be agnostic about axon vs dendrite.  But in CL we currently have:

CL:0000106 unipolar neuron: "Neuron with an axon and no dendrites." 
CL:0000104 multipolar neuron: "Neuron with an axon and two or more dendrites."
For both: remove mention of axons and dendrited.  Use neurite.

There are bipolar sensory neurons in insects, but bipolar neuron in CL is a 
SubClassOf interneuron:

CL:0000103 bipolar neuron: "A type of interneuron that has two neurites, 
usually an axon and a dendrite, extending from opposite poles of an ovoid cell 
body."

Given the definition, we may want to rename this term and create a new 
superclass that is purely morphologicall defined.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dosu...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2012 at 2:04

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Hi David,

I changed the definition for unipolar neuron.

For the multipolar neuron- neurite is a narrow synonym for neuron projection- 
would it be okay if we used neuron projection instead of neurite. Would this 
def for multipolar neuron work:
Neuron with two or more neuron projections, extending from opposite poles of 
the cell body.

Thank you,
Nicole Vasilevsky

Original comment by vasil...@ohsu.edu on 29 Jan 2013 at 10:34