Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a synapse.
  • adjective Of or relating to synapsis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to synapsis.

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  • adjective cytology Of or relating to a synapse—the junction between the terminal of a neuron and another cell.
  • adjective 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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  • adjective (neuroscience) of or involving synapses

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Greek sunaptos, joined together, from sunaptein, to join together; see synapse.]

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New Latin synapsis.

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Examples

  • This work made it clear to me that mice offered a superb genetic system for examining the role of individual genes in synaptic modification on the one hand, and intact behavior - explicit memory storage - on the other.

    Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography 2001

  • We appreciated that we had a particularly good experimental preparation for examining, on the cellular level, the role of second-messenger pathways in synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, and memory storage.

    Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography 2001

  • Two decades after Ramón y Cajal's proposal, the physiologist Alexander Forbes suggested that memory is sustained not by changes in synaptic strength of the sort suggested by

    Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography 2001

  • From Arvid Carlsson's research we now know that Parkinson's disease is due to failure in synaptic release of dopamine.

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 - Presentation Speech 2000

  • A practical course, and the book that resulted from this course, marked the end of our primary focus on methodological problems, and allowed me to concentrate my efforts on understanding the role of ion channels in synaptic signalling at the molecular level.

    Bert Sakmann - Autobiography 1992

  • A close examination of cellular changes associated with memory revealed an increase in the number of functional synapses, activation of key signaling molecules and an enhancement of short - and long-term synaptic processes that are crucial for learning and memory.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • A close examination of cellular changes associated with memory revealed an increase in the number of functional synapses, activation of key signaling molecules and an enhancement of short - and long-term synaptic processes that are crucial for learning and memory.

    University of Toronto -- News@UofT 2010

  • A close examination of cellular changes associated with memory revealed an increase in the number of functional synapses, activation of key signaling molecules and an enhancement of short - and long-term synaptic processes that are crucial for learning and memory.

    The Times of India 2010

  • A close examination of cellular changes associated with memory revealed an increase in the number of functional synapses, activation of key signaling molecules and an enhancement of short - and long-term synaptic processes that are crucial for learning and memory.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • During development the Ube3A mice had less spontaneous excitatory activity, fewer dendritic spines, no long term synaptic depression and needed much stronger stimulation to cause long term strengthening of the synapses (longterm potentiation - LTP).

    Scientific Blogging kmmuffy 2009

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