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- syn·ap·tic [si-, nap, -tik], syn·apti·cal adjective
- syn·apti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of synapsis1
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Example Sentences
From this synapsis the lower neurone proceeds, its axons travelling to the anterior horn and arborising around the motor cells.
There is in the male, in addition to the X, also a Y chromosome, which acts as its mate in synapsis and reduction.
The true synapsis occurs, as shown in figure 213, by pairing of like chromosomes side by side.
Anaphase of same, showing synapsis of chromosomes at pole of spindle, and element x.
The method of synapsis in Coptocycla is like that described for Chelymorpha argus.
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