Medical Definition of Dendritic thorns

1. Variably long excrescences of nerve cell dendrites, varying in shape from small knobs to thornlike or filamentous processes, usually more numerous on distal dendrite arborizations than on the proximal part of dendritic trunks; they are a preferential site of synaptic axodendritic contact; sparse or absent in some types of nerve cells (motor neurons, the large cells of the globus pallidus, stellate cells of the cerebral cortex), exceedingly numerous in others such as the pyramidal cells of the cerebral cortex and the Purkinje cells of the cerebellar cortex. Synonym: dendritic thorns, gemmule. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dendritic Thorns

dendrimers
dendrimersome
dendrite
dendrites
dendritic
dendritic calculus
dendritic cell
dendritic cells
dendritic corneal ulcer
dendritic depolarisation
dendritic keratitis
dendritic process
dendritic spine
dendritic spines
dendritic thorns (current term)
dendritic tree
dendritical
dendritogenesis
dendro-
dendroarchaeology
dendroarcheology
dendrobatid
dendrobatids
dendrobium
dendrobiums
dendroceratid
dendroceratids
dendrochemistry
dendrochronological

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