Q. What is an example of a situation in which the neuron cell body is located in a part of the body and its axonal terminal portion is in another distant part of the body? Why does this happen?
Most of the neurons are situated within the spinal cord and the brain (central nervous system) in places known as neural nuclei. Simply ganglia or neural ganglia are structures of the peripheral nervous system located beside the spinal column or near some organs where neuron cell bodies are also located.
Neurons situated at specific points can present distant axonal terminations and they also can receive impulses from axons of distant neurons the inferior motor neurons situated in the spinal cord are examples since their axons can transmit information to the extremities of the inferior limbs triggering contractions of the foot.