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trisynaptic

trisynaptic

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Adjective

trisynaptic (not comparable)

  1. Involving three synapses.
    • 2015 August 25, “Changes in Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in a Direct Cranial Blast Traumatic Brain Injury (dc-bTBI) Model”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0136151:
      The ability for one-trial rapid learning is a hippocampus-specific cognitive function requiring place information to traverse the full trisynaptic pathway (entorhinal cortex → DG → CA3 →CA1 → entorhinal cortex).