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synapse: the region where the processes of two neurones come into close contiguity, and the nervous impulse passes from one to the other; the fibres of the two are intermeshed, but, according to the general view, there is no direct contiguity
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synapse: interneuron function:the synapse connects the axon of a neuron with the dendrites or the soma of other neurons.Impulses reaching a synapse set up graded electrical signals in the dendrites of the neuron on which the synapse impinges,the interneural transmission being usually by diffusion of chemicals called transmitters
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