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synapse

Term: synapse

Origin: Anc Greek ???????/synapsis(=conjuction)

???-/syn (prefix denoting ?with, together with?)

+????/hapto (=fasten, adapt, clasp, bind)

Coined: in 1897 by the English physiologist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) and colleagues. Sherrington shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1932 with Lord Edgar Douglas Adrian of Cambridge University for "their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons."

Definition:

A synapse is a junction where a neuron relayed an electrical or chemical signal to another cell (neuron, muscle , or gland cell).

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