Anat. [ad. Gr. σύναψις: see SYNAPSIS.] The junction, or structure at the junction, between two neurons or nerve-cells.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 512. A feature of the concatenations of neurons more probably explicative of modification and delay of nerve impulses is the synapse.
1905. McDougall, Physiol. Psychol., ii. 27. A simple kind of synapse is formed by the division of the end of an axon … into a number of fine twigs that surround the cell-body of another neurone.
