Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a dendrite.
- adjective Of or relating to a dendritic cell.
- adjective Dendriform.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a tree; tree-like; arborescent in form; dendriform.
- Marked by figures resembling shrubs, mosses, etc.: said of certain minerals. See
dendrite . - In physical geography, branching irregularly, in the form of a tree: as, dendritic drainage, streams, valleys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
branching structure similar to atree - adjective Of, pertaining to or possessing
dendrites
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (neuroscience) of or relating to or resembling a dendrite
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Examples
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The cells Steinman discovered, which he dubbed dendritic cells, are born in the bone marrow but appear all over the body - in skin, kidneys, liver, gut and elsewhere.
News - latimes.com 2011
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The cells Steinman discovered, which he dubbed dendritic cells, are born in the bone marrow but appear all over the body - in skin, kidneys, liver, gut and elsewhere.
News - latimes.com 2011
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The cells Steinman discovered, which he dubbed dendritic cells, are born in the bone marrow but appear all over the body - in skin, kidneys, liver, gut and elsewhere.
News - latimes.com 2011
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The increase in dendritic outgrowths is rapid - within 24 -48 hours of giving estrogen, there is a measurably dramatic change in the number of connections between brain cells.
Estrogen and Memory aka TBTAM 2008
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Grutzendler J, Kasthuri N, Gan WB (2002) Long-term dendritic spine stability in the adult cortex.
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Zuo Y, Lin A, Chang P, Gan WB (2005) Development of long-term dendritic spine stability in diverse regions of cerebral cortex.
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Supporting this possibility, we found that long-term (overnight) exposure of neurons to FM1-43, so as to specifically label dendritic Golgi vesicles
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pablo Blinder et al. 2008
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A population of specialized cells called "dendritic cells" monitor the proteins that enter the body through the gut.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Honey in Integrative Veterinary Medicine Dr. Richard Palmquist 2011
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To give you some idea of what a challenging job this policing is, consider this: immune system helper cells, known as dendritic cells, present antigens from foreign invader cells to over a million of our T cells in a single day.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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To give you some idea of what a challenging job this policing is, consider this: immune system helper cells, known as dendritic cells, present antigens from foreign invader cells to over a million of our T cells in a single day.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
emilytherese commented on the word dendritic
it's not just for neuroscience...dendritic means branching like a tree and can be used to describe many things
July 31, 2008
emilytherese commented on the word dendritic
it's not just for neuroscience...dendritic means branching like a tree and can be used to describe many things
July 31, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word dendritic
emilytherese (which I like to imagine as a young woman with freckles and braided hair), wordnet put those incomplete definitions just to catch new Wordies. Once you start commenting you won't stop.
WELCOME!
July 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dendritic
I second that--and you have a lovely screen name. :-)
July 31, 2008
sionnach commented on the word dendritic
I imagine emilytherese as starring in her own, hitherto undiscovered, novel by Flaubert. A much smarter young lady than Emma, to be sure.
Welcome to wordie.
(Technical hint: One of the oddities of wordie is that the 'delete' button for comments you have made only shows up after you edit the comment once. So, to delete something, just hit the edit button, save it again and then the delete option will be available to you)
July 31, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word dendritic
*FAQ*
July 31, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dendritic
"One link between the nonspecific and specific immune response is a particular and rare kind of white blood cell called a dendritic cell. Dendritic cells attack bacteria and viruses indiscriminately, engulf them, then 'process' their antigens and 'present' those antigens—in effect they chop up an invading microorganism into pieces and display the antigens like a trophy flag."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 108
February 11, 2009