synaptic
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- synaptically adverb
Example Sentences
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Recent studies have increasingly tied the complement cascade to excessive synaptic pruning and to neurological disorders.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
In 2006, she and her colleagues discovered that the mouse version of LilrB2 plays an essential role in synaptic pruning, a normal process during brain development and learning in adulthood.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
Importantly, CaAKG restored synaptic tagging and capture, a critical mechanism that allows the brain to link experiences and form associative memories.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026
"We hope this new technique of visualizing synaptic membrane dynamics in live brain tissue samples can help us understand similarities and differences in nonheritable and heritable forms of the condition," Watanabe says.
From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025
And the spongy centers of synaptic cell-clusters horrified him, recalling too vividly to mind what he knew of the physical human brain.
From We're Friends, Now by Varga, Mel
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