Definition of Arborize

1. Verb. Branch out like trees. "Nerve fibers arborize"

Exact synonyms: Arborise
Generic synonyms: Branch, Fork, Furcate, Ramify, Separate
Derivative terms: Arbor, Arbor

Definition of Arborize

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of arborise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arborize

1. to form many branches [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arborize

arboriculture
arboricultures
arboriculturist
arboriform
arborio
arborio rice
arborise
arborised
arborises
arborising
arborist
arborists
arborization
arborization block
arborizations
arborize (current term)
arborized
arborizes
arborizing
arboroid
arborolatry
arborous
arbors
arborsculpture
arborvirus
arborvitae
arborvitaes
arborway
arbour
arboured

Literary usage of Arborize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Normal Histology and Organography by Charles Hill (1917)
"This tract descends as far as the lumbar region and its fibers are supposed to arborize around the motor cells of the anterior horn of the spinal cord. 5. ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"The efferent member of these epithelial neurones arborize in the outer reticular layer with the neurones of the cerebral layer. Like the mitral cells of the ..."

3. A Compend of Human Physiology: Especially Adapted for the Use of Medical by Albert Philson Brubaker (1921)
"The fibers that emerge in this nerve pass into the tympanic branch or nerve of Jacobson and ultimately arborize around the cells of the otic ganglion. ..."

4. A Manual of Dissection and Practical Anatomy: Founded on Gray and Gerrish by William Thomas Eckley, Corinne Buford Eckley (1903)
"These rami communicantes pass up the sympathetic cord to the superior cervical ganglion, where they arborize around its cells, thence to the Gasserian ..."

5. Diseases of the nervous system by John Eastman Wilson (1909)
"Other fibres tend externally, and arborize about the cells in the posterior horn of ... XI is the root of the eleventh nerve. (From Henle.) arborize about ..."

6. A Text-book of physiology by Isaac Ott (1913)
"The descending branches arborize about the cells in the gray matter of the cord. The ascending branches in great part ascend in the columns of Goll and ..."

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