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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Situated proximal to a synapse, or occurring before the synapse is crossed. (references) |
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Crosswords: PRESYNAPTIC |
| Specialty definitions using "PRESYNAPTIC": Autoreceptors ♦ Motor Endplate ♦ Nerve Endings ♦ omega-Conotoxins ♦ Presynaptic Terminals ♦ Receptors, Presynaptic ♦ Synapsins, Synaptic Membranes, Synaptic Transmission, Synaptic Vesicles, Synaptophysin. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | First the toxic protein attaches to the presynaptic nerve membrane. (references) | |
Then the toxin crosses the presynaptic plasma membrane, following which the toxin inhibits release of vesicle-bound acetylcholine. (references) | ||
Previously known only as a cause of a serious and often fatal paralysis acquired through ingestion of contaminated food, the toxin causes paralysis by blocking the presynaptic release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction. (references) | ||
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| "PRESYNAPTIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRESYNAPTIC" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PRESYNAPTIC": Presynaptic Terminals. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
neuron presynaptic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PRESYNAPTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | præsynaptisk, præsynaptisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | presynaptisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | presynaptinen, synapsia edeltävä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | présynaptique, présynaptique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | präsynaptisch, präsynaptisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσυναπτικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | presinaptico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esynapticpray pré-sinático. (various references) presináptico. (various references) presynaptiskt neuron (presynaptic neuron), presynaptiskt axon (presynaptic axon), presynaptisk händelse (presynaptic event), presynaptisk cell (presynaptic cell), presynaptisk aktivitet (presynaptic event). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PRESYNAPTIC": presynaptically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: crappiest, insectary. | |
-3 letters: ancestry, apyretic, asperity, canister, cantrips, ceratins, cisterna, crappies, creatins, crispate, cyanites, cyprians, encrypts, epicarps, epinasty, nappiest, painters, pantries, papistry, papyrine, paretics, periapts, pertains, picrates, pinaster, practise, pristane, repaints, sapiency, scantier, snappier, snippety, synaptic, tacrines. | |
-4 letters: acetins, anestri, antsier, apprise, arcsine, arpents, arsenic, aseptic, canters, cantrip, cappers, caprine, carnets, carneys, carnies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+4 letters: cyproheptadines, presynaptically. | |
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