Definition of synaptic in English:
synaptic
adjective sɪˈnaptɪksʌɪˈnaptɪksəˈnæptɪk
Anatomy Relating to a synapse or synapses between nerve cells.
Example sentencesExamples
- After synaptic transmission is blocked by botulinum toxin, the muscles become clinically weak and atrophic.
- Each little bump or spine on each dendrite is a synaptic connection from another nerve cell axon terminal.
- This primary pathology includes a range of inflammatory disorders as well as neuronal loss along with dendritic damage and synaptic loss.
- A major type of neuron in the cerebral cortex may receive up to 10,000 synaptic connections from other neurons.
- This is the release of a neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft from synaptic vesicles in the axon terminal.
Derivatives
adverb
Anatomy The Winterstein hypothesis was further resuscitated by evidence that CO2 could directly excite synaptically isolated respiratory neurons.
Example sentencesExamples
- Therefore, BDNF-induced chaos stabilization is not synaptically driven.
- To test whether the pattern of synaptically recorded depression could be replicated by a simple decrease in the vesicular release probability, we repeated the simulations with P v values of 0.07 and 0.05.
- To address the functional consequences of this asymmetry, we simulate diffusion and transport of synaptically released glutamate in these two brain areas.
- A critical unanswered question is what dynamic patterns can emerge in networks of synaptically coupled oscillatory neurons in the brain.
Definition of synaptic in US English:
synaptic
adjectivesəˈnæptɪksəˈnaptik
Anatomy Relating to a synapse or synapses between nerve cells.
Example sentencesExamples
- After synaptic transmission is blocked by botulinum toxin, the muscles become clinically weak and atrophic.
- A major type of neuron in the cerebral cortex may receive up to 10,000 synaptic connections from other neurons.
- Each little bump or spine on each dendrite is a synaptic connection from another nerve cell axon terminal.
- This primary pathology includes a range of inflammatory disorders as well as neuronal loss along with dendritic damage and synaptic loss.
- This is the release of a neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft from synaptic vesicles in the axon terminal.