Synaptic Definition

sĭ-năptĭk
adjective
Of or relating to a synapse.
Synaptic nerve endings.
American Heritage
Of or relating to synapsis.
The synaptic phase in meiosis.
American Heritage

(cytology) Of or relating to a synapsis"”the association of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes during the initial part of meiosis.

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Origin of Synaptic

  • From Greek sunaptos joined together from sunaptein to join together synapse

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin synapsis.

    From Wiktionary

Synaptic Sentence Examples

  • Instead, there is a tiny gap called the synaptic cleft.

  • They can cause long-term modulation of synaptic efficacy, which is necessary for memory.

  • Biochem Soc Trans (In Press) Smillie KJ, Cousin MA (2005) Role of dynamin I phosphorylation in synaptic vesicle endocytosis.

  • With a decrease in the duration of synaptic inhibition both systems are found to break into clusters.

  • A leaky integrate-and-fire neuron model is then utilized, with the input to the neuron model gained through summing the synaptic EPSPs.

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