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the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle

He thinks exercise helps build elasticity in synapses.

God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts!
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Just from being near Apophis I felt like I was coming undone—my brain synapses, my DNA, everything that made me Carter Kane was slowly dissolving.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
It's an inherited genetic defect that means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn't function properly.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
A couple of synapses actually connected in my brain.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
When my scrambled brain finally cleared and my synapses began firing again, I was on my back with my worried miniflock p eering down at me.
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
You can't parse me into dendrites and synapses.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
Crippled muscles withered further, synapses wouldn't fire, wasted legs refused to ambulate.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
He often knew when, but his synapses were never as quick now as normal people's—or at least that was how he explained it to himself.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
"Not until whoever said that owns up," urged the computer, stamping a few synapses closed.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"His ah-h-h synaptic responses are very swift," she said.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
The never-ending make-and-break of synapses contributed a crackling hail of complex rhythms.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
Puller performs his kill algorithm at lightning speed, his synapses traveling far faster than even the bullet he's about to deliver.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
It was as if my synapses had suddenly snapped together.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
Used Up Burned out, adrift on a sea of uncertain synapses, a place where your eyes refuse to focus and your brain refuses to function.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
Wyoh looked at me and I could see synapses snapping.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I realized that it had taken every neuron and synapse in his brain to frame that distinction.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Synaptic bypass: eighty-four.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
He suffers from a disease called congenital analgesia, which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn't function.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Instantly, every synapse in my brain started firing to try and find the perfect, spontaneous thing to say.
D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death

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