synapse

IPA: sˈɪæps

The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass.

Examples of "synapse" in Sentences

Mind the gap, the place where your nerve cells communicate known as the synapse.
As we saw earlier, the point where one neuron’s axon meets another neuron’s dendrite is called a synapse.
The message has to take a neurological leap of faith, if you will, by crossing the space between the two neurons, called the synapse.
By NowhereBob, January 29, 2010 @ 10: 02 am re face recognition, dodgy synapse is saying either Smithsonian Museum or Brit Museum had such.
During the following two years I learned, with Dale Purves, that the neuromuscular synapse is also a good model for studying long-term changes in chemical and electrical excitability.
The synapse is a mechanism that allows amazingly rapid communication between cells, and I don't see any major leap between co-opting an ensemble of proteins that senses the environment for sensing of signals from other cells.
It’s like the magic sword, a grunt’s Excalibur: all you do is move that finger so imperceptibly just a wish flashing across your mind like a shadow, not even a full brain synapse, and I poof in a blast of sound and energy and light a truck or a house or even people disappear, everything flying and settling back into dust.