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Early studies of brain tissue that used staining techniques and microscopes from the 19th century described the "nerve net." These early understandings were in error in the sense that the nerve net was believed to be:

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Continuous

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A nerve net is any plexus of neurons lying in the periphery and so connected as to provide a diffuse conduction system, i.e., one in which conduction can take place in any direction and in which many alternative routes exist between any two points. They are entirely distinct and nowhere structurally continuous with any other fiber.

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