Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having one neural synapse.
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- adjective Having, or involving a single
synapse
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Examples
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Pyramidal cells synapse onto other pyramidal cells, making a "monosynaptic" connection.
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The glue on Will's head must have run into his ears and paralyzed his monosynaptic cerebellum.
In anticipation of Friday's debate, the NYT sizes up Obama and McCain. Ann Althouse 2008
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The monosynaptic connection is excitatory, but, because the Martinotti cell makes GABAergic synapses onto its targets, the disynaptic connection is inhibitory.
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Furthermore, initiation-associated pyramidal cells excited similar and different functional classes of neurons through putative monosynaptic connections.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Yoshikazu Isomura 2009
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I actually liken you to Tom Lloyd and Don Juan, two newly joined knuckle dragging monosynaptic fools that couldn't put a rational thought together even working in tandem.
Home 2009
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I actually liken you to Tom Lloyd and Don Juan, two newly joined knuckle dragging monosynaptic fools that couldn't put a rational thought together even working in tandem.
Home 2009
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I actually liken you to Tom Lloyd and Don Juan, two newly joined knuckle dragging monosynaptic fools that couldn't put a rational thought together even working in tandem.
Home 2009
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I actually liken you to Tom Lloyd and Don Juan, two newly joined knuckle dragging monosynaptic fools that couldn't put a rational thought together even working in tandem.
Home 2009
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I actually liken you to Tom Lloyd and Don Juan, two newly joined knuckle dragging monosynaptic fools that couldn't put a rational thought together even working in tandem.
Home 2009
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The hippocampus has two major, parallel information-carrying routes: the tri-synaptic pathway (TSP) and the shorter monosynaptic pathway (MSP).
Biosingularity 2008
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