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trisynaptic

trisynaptic adjective: involving three synapses.

Adjective

trisynaptic (not comparable)

  1. Involving three synapses.
    • The ability for one-trial rapid learning is a hippocampus-specific cognitive function requiring place information to traverse the full trisynaptic pathway (entorhinal cortex → DG → CA3 →CA1 → entorhinal cortex).2015 August 25, “Changes in Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in a Direct Cranial Blast Traumatic Brain Injury (dc-bTBI) Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of trisynaptic

From tri- + synaptic.

Questions about trisynaptic

What does trisynaptic mean?
Trisynaptic means involving three synapses.
What part of speech is trisynaptic?
Trisynaptic is an adjective.

Words near trisynaptic in the dictionary

  1. trisyllabicity
  2. trisyllabics
  3. trisyllabism
  4. trisyllable
  5. trisyllables
  6. trisynaptic
  7. trit
  8. trit-
  9. Trita
  10. tritactic
  11. Tritaea

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