Sugars are present in nature; plants make sugars through photosynthesis. The sugar (sucrose) you find in your sugar bowl is simply water-extracted from beet or cane by sugar producers.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Axim is a town, district and kingdom on the coast of Ghana. It lies 64 kilometers west of the port city of Takoradi, south of the highway leading to the CÃ´te d'Ivoire border, in the Western Region to the west of Cape Three Points.
For other uses, see Axon (disambiguation). An axon (from Greek á¼Î¾ÏÎ½ Ã¡xÅn, axis), is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body. Myelinated axons are known as nerve fibers. The function of the axon is to transmit information to different neurons, muscles and glands.