Trisynaptic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving three synapses. not-comparable

    "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)."

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"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)."

Etymology

From tri- + synaptic.

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