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Definition: Synapse |
SynapseNoun1. The junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle; "nerve impulses cross a synapse through the action of neurotransmitters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "synapse" was first used: 1899. (references) |
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Health | The region where the processes of two neurons come into close contiguity, and the nervous impulse passes from one to the other; the fibers of the two are intermeshed, but, according to the general view, there is no direct contiguity. (references) |
Medicine | The regio where the processes of two neurons come into close continguity, and the nervous impulse passes from one to the other; the fibres of the two are intermeshed, but, according to the general view, there is no direct continguity. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Synapse |
| English words defined with "synapse": nerve end, nerve ending, neurotransmitter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "synapse": Adrenergic Fibers ♦ Cholinergic Fibers ♦ Desipramine ♦ Ganglia, Autonomic ♦ Neuroeffector Junction ♦ Olfactory Receptor Neurons ♦ presynaptic ♦ Synaptic Transmission, Synaptophysin ♦ transmitter substance. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Synapse" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (synapse). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse (1991) | |
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Health | Normally acetylcholine carries a message across the synapse, and then is broken down by the cholinesterase. (references) | |
An implanted nerve will not form a synapse with a muscle unless the original nerve to that muscle has been removed. (references) | ||
Development and regeneration, including trophic factors, axonal pathfinding, growth inhibitors, and synapse formation. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Synapse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.40% of the time. "Synapse" is used about 77 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 97.4% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "synapse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 胞突接合. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | synapse (synapsis), kontaktkurv (synapsis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | synapsis (synapsis), synapse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | synapsi (chromosome pairing, synapsis, syndesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | synapse (synapsis, synaptic input). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Synapse (synapsis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sinapsi (synapsis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シップエア方式 (chiffon, chignon style, cine mode, cine sign, cinefilm, cinema, cinema complex, CinemaScope, Cinerama, cineraria, cinnamon, citron, city, city air terminal, city boy, city gal, city guide, city hall, city pops, civic, civic center, civic trust, civil minimum, civilian control, civilization, cynic, cynical, cynicism, move into low gear, scenario, scenario writer, senior, severe, shift, shift dress, shift in, shift key, shift out, shift-JIS, ship air system, Sinanthropus pekinensis, sine curve, sinusoide, Sydney, synagogue, synergy, synonym, synopsis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シナプス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ynapsesay синапс. (various references) sinapsis. (various references) synaps. (various references) ช่องว่างระหว่างเซลล์ประสาท. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | synapsis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "synapse": synapsed, synapses. (additional references) | |
Words containing "synapse": asynapses. (additional references) | |
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"Synapse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dynaspek, sinapse, snapse, synape, synaps, synapsid, synapsing, Syncaset, synops, synopse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-p-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: aspens, sneaps, speans. | |
-2 letters: apses, aspen, essay, napes, neaps, panes, pansy, pases, passe, peans, sanes, sensa, snaps, sneap, snyes, spaes, spans, spays, spean, yeans. | |
-3 letters: anes, apes, apse, asps, ayes, easy, espy, eyas, nape, naps, nays, neap, ness, pane, pans, pase, pass, pays, pean, peas, pens, pyas, pyes, sane, sans, saps, says, seas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-p-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: dyspneas, synapsed, synapses. | |
+2 letters: asynapses, dyspnoeas, pyranoses. | |
+3 letters: dispensary, laypersons, painlessly, planlessly, synalephas, syncarpies, syncopates. | |
+4 letters: aepyornises, antipyreses, antipyresis, misshapenly, panegyrists, playfulness, pyranosides, screenplays, synaloephas, synaptosome, typicalness. | |
+5 letters: autohypnoses, dispensatory, handypersons, hypermnesias, passionately, physicalness, polyanthuses, sycophancies, synaptosomes, trypanosomes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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