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  • noun Plural form of synapse.
  • noun Plural form of synapsis.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of synapse.

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Examples

  • Looking into his eyes while carrying on a conversation was like glimpsing the inner workings of a supercomputer, for you could almost see the sparks flying, brain synapses in rapid fire.

    Sunday Scribblings-Date 2008

  • More brain synapses are fired during a 3D presentation - it is physically more appealing.

    3D Gets a Boost of Positive News - Really? « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • But at some point, a couple of brain synapses failed to fire.

    A Heartwrenching Tale Of Human Folly 2007

  • He, Oakley and the rest of the team listed all the genes known to be operative in synapses in the human nervous system.

    Another predictable argument against front-loading 2007

  • When you're done feasting on that one, hop over to a response by Heart at Women's Space to keep your brain synapses firing, especially from all the funny and way, way smart commenters there.

    BROAD CAST 5 NOVEMBER 2007 -- AND MY BLOG IS HONORED Maggie Jochild 2007

  • (Well, that's quite the euphemism, as well: an Italian newspaper mocked us all when, on Thanksgiving eve, that whole affair was postponed by Supervisor Leahy, and two other sheepish accomplices ~ their expressions imprinted on my long-term synapses for ever and anon. as well as sickening our holidays 'digestive cycles well through the next day and all left-overs, to boot ~~ with their headline, translated from the original Italian, "The Turkey Won").

    Any true review of "Recount" at HBO must be subtitled "Look Back in Anger" 2008

  • * Signaling Brain Cells: Making synapses from the fewest possible ingredients.

    Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Hitherto the evidence concerning a chemical transmission in the central nervous system, of the type which we have found prevailing at all peripheral synapses, is scattered and insufficiently uniform in its indications.

    Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • And when you reach that age, it’s pretty inevitable that the brain synapses aren’t going to fire as rapidly as they once did, that change is going to be a bit harder to handle, that stress is going to take a bigger toll than it once did.

    The Age Factor 2008

  • And when you reach that age, it’s pretty inevitable that the brain synapses aren’t going to fire as rapidly as they once did, that change is going to be a bit harder to handle, that stress is going to take a bigger toll than it once did.

    2008 October « Becca’s Byline 2008

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