Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A branching, treelike shape or arrangement, as that of the dendrite of a nerve cell.
- n. The formation of a treelike shape or arrangement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A growth or an appearance resembling the figure of a tree or plant, as in certain minerals or fossils.
- n. In pathology, the ramification of capillary vessels or veinlets rendered conspicuous by distention and injection.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.
Examples
“Based on rat studies, they hypothesize that "dendrite arborization" -- an increased branching growth of nerve cells -- caused by chronic antidepressant exposure, may be the cause.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Peter Breggin: New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression
“This process is called, appropriately, arborization.”
“The structure of the neuron naturally lends itself to comparison with the branches, trunk, and roots of a tree, and indeed the technical term for the growth of dendrites is "arborization.”
“Also, I am still trying to get you to commit to say something with regard to P-cells in lungfish, salamanders etc, which should really stand out with respect to P-cell arborization given their massive genomes.”
“Will their arborization be, say, 10-fold higher than human?”
“AB 2 — Also, I am still trying to get you to commit to say something with regard to P-cells in lungfish, salamanders etc, which should really stand out with respect to P-cell arborization given their massive genomes.”
“This contains numerous spheroidal reticulated enlargements, termed glomeruli, produced by the branching and arborization of the processes of the olfactory nerve fibres with the descending dendrites of the mitral cells.”
“They are: (a) the cells of Golgi, the axons of which divide immediately after their origins into a large number of branches, which are directed toward the surface of the cortex; (b) the cells of Martinotti, which are chiefly found in the polymorphous layer; their dendrites are short, and may have an ascending or descending course, while their axons pass out into the molecular layer and form an extensive horizontal arborization.”
“Figure 8: Development but not maintenance of LN arborization depends on ORNs.”
“Only one type of cell lit up: a type of neuron called class IV dendritic arborization neurons.”
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Interesting words
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Rognons of Random Palavery
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Words that I used to know.
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jmjarmstrong JM holds his arms in the air in his latest attempt at arborization. Jan 17, 2011