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Definition: Synaptic |
SynapticAdjective1. (neuroscience) of or involving synapses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "synaptic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pertaining to or affecting a synapse (= site of functional apposition between neurons, at which an impulse is transmitted from one neuron to another by electrical or chemical means); pertaining to synapsis (= pairing off in point-for-point association of homologous chromosomes from the male and female pronuclei during the early prophase of meiosis). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Synaptic |
| English words defined with "synaptic": geniculate body. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "synaptic": Long-Term Potentiation ♦ Motor Endplate ♦ Nerve Net, Neuropil, Nicotinic Antagonists ♦ Receptors, Amino Acid, Receptors, AMPA, Receptors, Glutamate, Receptors, Purinergic P2 ♦ Synapsins, Synaptic Transmission, Synaptic Vesicles. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Another study seeks to understand the molecular basis of synaptic transmission in the nervous system. (references) | |
Presenilin mutations that cause AD could possibly affect presenilin function at the synaptic connections between brain cells. (references) | ||
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| "Synaptic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Synaptic" is used about 137 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% | 137 | 27,138 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "synaptic": local synaptic rule ♦ Synaptic Membranes ♦ synaptic rule ♦ Synaptic Transmission ♦ Synaptic Vesicles ♦ synaptic weight. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "synaptic": post-synaptic. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "synaptic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 突触神经. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | synaptisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | synaptisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | synaptinen, synapsi-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | synaptique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | synaptisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συναπτικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sinaptico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ynapticsay sináptico. (various references) sináptico. (various references) synaptiskt inflöde (synaptic input), synaptisk kontakt (synaptic contact), synaptisk inlärningsregel (synaptic rule), synaptisk förändring (synaptic change), synaptisk bana (synaptic pathway), synaptisk överföring (synaptic relay), lokal synaptisk regel (local synaptic rule), kopplingsstyrka (connection strength, synaptic weight, weight of the link), excitatorisk synaptisk potential (excitatory synaptic potential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "synaptic": synaptically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "synaptic": monosynaptic, polysynaptic, postsynaptic, presynaptic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "synaptic": monosynaptically, polysynaptically, postsynaptically, presynaptically. (additional references) | |
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"Synaptic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Senapati, syatic, symatic, synapsid, synptoic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-p-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: catnips. | |
-2 letters: actins, antics, atypic, catnip, nastic, paints, painty, panics, patins, pintas, ptisan, sanity, satiny, scanty. | |
-3 letters: actin, antic, antis, antsy, aspic, ayins, cains, canst, cants, canty, cyans, inapt, nasty, nipas, pacts, pains, paint, panic, pansy, pants, panty, pasty, patin, patsy, pians, picas, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, pyins, saint, satin, scant, spacy, spait. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-p-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: antipyics. | |
+2 letters: synoptical. | |
+3 letters: nyctalopias, patronymics, playactings, predynastic, presynaptic, sycophantic, syncopating, syncopation, syncopative, typecasting, typicalness. | |
+4 letters: amylopectins, antipyretics, discrepantly, intrapsychic, monosynaptic, pantisocracy, plastocyanin, polysynaptic, postsynaptic, prostacyclin, scintigraphy, sycophantish, sycophantism, synaptically, syncopations, synoptically. | |
+5 letters: amphictyonies, antipsychotic, complaisantly, cryptanalysis, lycanthropies, metaphysician, pancytopenias, parasynthetic, phagocytosing, pianistically, plastocyanins, postcranially, prostacyclins, psychasthenia, psychasthenic, saprogenicity, splenetically, sycophantisms, typicalnesses, typifications, unsympathetic, unsymptomatic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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