Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell.
- v. To form a synapse.
- v. To undergo synapsis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same. as synapsis.
Wiktionary
- n. The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass.
- v. To form a synapse.
- v. To undergo synapsis.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle
Etymologies
- Greek sunapsis, point of contact, from sunaptein, to join together : sun-, syn- + haptein, to fasten.
Examples
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“The synapse is a mechanism that allows amazingly rapid communication between cells, and I don't see any major leap between co-opting an ensemble of proteins that senses the environment for sensing of signals from other cells.”
“During the following two years I learned, with Dale Purves, that the neuromuscular synapse is also a good model for studying long-term changes in chemical and electrical excitability.”
“As we saw earlier, the point where one neuron’s axon meets another neuron’s dendrite is called a synapse.”
“It’s like the magic sword, a grunt’s Excalibur: all you do is move that finger so imperceptibly just a wish flashing across your mind like a shadow, not even a full brain synapse, and I poof in a blast of sound and energy and light a truck or a house or even people disappear, everything flying and settling back into dust.”
“Mind the gap, the place where your nerve cells communicate known as the synapse.”
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“The message has to take a neurological leap of faith, if you will, by crossing the space between the two neurons, called the synapse.”
“All messages cross a space between neurons called the synapse.”
“When it has been “excited” by the chemical messengers, the connection between two nerve cells is strengthened, or potentiated—that is, the synapse learns to fire in this way, and in the future it becomes easier and easier to do so.”
“As two neurons fire at the same time the "bridge" between them (called a synapse) becomes more and more fortified.”
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