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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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