Definitions for synapse

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synapse syn·apse

Spelling: [sin-aps, si-naps]

IPA: /ˈsɪn æps, sɪˈnæps/

Synapse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in synapse (aenpssy).

Definitions for synapse

noun

1. a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.

verb (used without object)

1. Cell Biology, Physiology. to form a synapse or a synapsis.

Origin of synapse

1895-1900; back formation from synapses, plural of synapsis

Examples for synapse

If you followed such things at the time, perhaps the phrase “Phase II report” will snap a synapse or two.

Maybe his secretary's two neurones would fail to synapse this morning, and she'd lose them altogether.

The place of juxtaposition of the end of one neurone against the beginning of another is called the synapse.

The contact of the axon of one neuron with the dendrons of another is called a synapse.

The synapse, then, is not a thing, but simply a junction between two neurones.

As for Cain, one wonders what synapse snapped into action there.

These are transferred from neuron to neuron through the synapse.

Every synapse sagged under the increasing load of sensitivity.

Aren't all facts, at the neuron and synapse level, really the same?

Inside, the cacophony of neon signs are a synapse stimulus package for your jet-lagged mind.