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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell.
  2. v. To form a synapse.
  3. v. To undergo synapsis.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same. as synapsis.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass.
  2. v. To form a synapse.
  3. v. To undergo synapsis.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle

Etymologies

  1. Greek sunapsis, point of contact, from sunaptein, to join together : sun-, syn- + haptein, to fasten.

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