terminal branch

collocation in English

meaningsofterminalandbranch

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terminal
adjective
uk
/ˈtɜː.mɪ.nəl/us
/ˈtɝː.mə.nəl/
(of a disease or illness) leading gradually ...
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branch
noun[C]
uk
/brɑːntʃ/us
/bræntʃ/
a part of ...
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(Definition ofterminalandbranchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When the stimulus size covered an entire dendrite, the impulse was initiated at the very end of theterminalbranch, provided that an impulse was triggered in that dendrite.
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This is considered theterminalbranchof the maxillary artery.
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Second, the superior epigastric artery, aterminalbranchof the internal thoracic artery, supplies blood to the upper portion.
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It runs with the lateralterminalbranchof deep fibular nerve.
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There, it is called the infraorbital nerve, aterminalbranch.
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It appears that pulmonates are paraphyletic and basal to the opisthobranchs, which are aterminalbranchof the tree.
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There it divides into a deep and a superficialterminalbranch.
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The 108 terminal branches are sorted by remoteness of the proximal end, stretched out horizontally and shown in grey.
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The extensive, radially-symmetric dendritic arbor of these cells shows only proximal branching and thereby very long terminal branches.
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Dendrites are wavier and give rise to short terminal branches in patches located in both proximal and distal regions of the dendritic tree.
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In the background, the lengths and positions of 108 terminal branches are sorted by remoteness.
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Curiously, most cells also possessed one to two terminal branches that were relatively short, extending only 50-100 mm.
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H1 axon terminal from the retinal periphery, 5.9 mm temporal to the fovea, focus on the terminal branches of the axonal arbor.
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Convex polygons connecting the tip of dendrites or axon terminal branches were used to measure dendritic-field area and axon-terminal area, respectively.
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For both species, males usually significantly over-utilized the edges of terminal branches, and in a few cases near edges of branches, while females mostly over-utilized the grouped remaining branch positions.
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Branching density is much higher, however, and the dendritic tree resembles nothing so much as a thicket of brambles with many short dendritic appendages and terminal branches.
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