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Definition of "synapse" []

  • The junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell. (noun)
  • To form a synapse. (verb-intransitive)
  • To undergo synapsis. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "synapse" in a sentence
  • "By NowhereBob, January 29, 2010 @ 10: 02 am re face recognition, dodgy synapse is saying either Smithsonian Museum or Brit Museum had such."
  • "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."