Archive for October, 2007
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This colored scanning electron micrograph shows the synapses, or connections, between two nerve fibers (in purple) and a nerve cell (yellow). The picture is magnified 10,000 times.
synapse: [Gk. sunapsis, point of contact, sunaptein, join together : sun-, together + haptein, to fasten.] The point at which a nerve impulse is transmitted from an axon of one neuron to the dendrite of another.
chaos: n. [formless matter Gk. khaos] 1. A state or place of total confusion or disorder. 2. often Chaos. The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space believed, according to some religious cosmological views, to have existed prior to the ordered universe. 3. Obsolete. A vast chasm or abyss.
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