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- noun Plural form of
synapse . - noun Plural form of
synapsis . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
synapse .
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Examples
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Looking into his eyes while carrying on a conversation was like glimpsing the inner workings of a supercomputer, for you could almost see the sparks flying, brain synapses in rapid fire.
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More brain synapses are fired during a 3D presentation - it is physically more appealing.
3D Gets a Boost of Positive News - Really? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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But at some point, a couple of brain synapses failed to fire.
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He, Oakley and the rest of the team listed all the genes known to be operative in synapses in the human nervous system.
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When you're done feasting on that one, hop over to a response by Heart at Women's Space to keep your brain synapses firing, especially from all the funny and way, way smart commenters there.
BROAD CAST 5 NOVEMBER 2007 -- AND MY BLOG IS HONORED Maggie Jochild 2007
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(Well, that's quite the euphemism, as well: an Italian newspaper mocked us all when, on Thanksgiving eve, that whole affair was postponed by Supervisor Leahy, and two other sheepish accomplices ~ their expressions imprinted on my long-term synapses for ever and anon. as well as sickening our holidays 'digestive cycles well through the next day and all left-overs, to boot ~~ with their headline, translated from the original Italian, "The Turkey Won").
Any true review of "Recount" at HBO must be subtitled "Look Back in Anger" 2008
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* Signaling Brain Cells: Making synapses from the fewest possible ingredients.
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Hitherto the evidence concerning a chemical transmission in the central nervous system, of the type which we have found prevailing at all peripheral synapses, is scattered and insufficiently uniform in its indications.
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And when you reach that age, it’s pretty inevitable that the brain synapses aren’t going to fire as rapidly as they once did, that change is going to be a bit harder to handle, that stress is going to take a bigger toll than it once did.
The Age Factor 2008
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And when you reach that age, it’s pretty inevitable that the brain synapses aren’t going to fire as rapidly as they once did, that change is going to be a bit harder to handle, that stress is going to take a bigger toll than it once did.
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