Usually means: Membrane-bound vesicle containing synapses.
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  1. synaptosome: Merriam-Webster
  2. synaptosome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. synaptosome: Collins English Dictionary
  4. synaptosome: Wiktionary
  5. synaptosome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. synaptosome: Dictionary.com
  7. Synaptosome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. synaptosome: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. synaptosome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. synaptosome: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (synaptosome)

▸ noun:  A structure containing vesicles and mitochondria of a synapse that is obtained when brain tissue is homogenized.

Similar:
synaptoneurosome, synaptodendrosome, synaptosoneurosome, synaptoproteome, synaptogram, synaptophysin, synaptojanin, synaptase, sinaptosomal, synaptogyrin, more...

Opposite:
extrasynaptic, presynaptic, postsynaptic.

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Similar:
synaptoneurosome, synaptodendrosome, synaptosoneurosome, synaptoproteome, synaptogram, synaptophysin, synaptojanin, synaptase, sinaptosomal, synaptogyrin, more...

Opposite:
extrasynaptic, presynaptic, postsynaptic.



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