Definition of Bouton

1. Noun. A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bouton

1. an enlarged end of a nerve fiber [n -S]

Medical Definition of Bouton

1. A button, pustule, or knob-like swelling. Origin: Fr. Button (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bouton

boustrophedon
boustrophedonic
boustrophedons
boustrophic
bousy
bout
boutade
boutades
boutefeu
boutefeus
boutfit
boutique
boutiquelike
boutiques
boutiquey
bouton (current term)
bouton de Bagdad
bouton de Biskra
boutonne
boutonneuse
boutonneuse fever
boutonniere
boutonniere deformity
boutonniered
boutonnieres
boutons
bouts
bouts-rimés
boutye
bouvardia

Literary usage of Bouton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1869)
"bouton. Discourse, Commemorative of Forty Years Ministry at Concord, NH Concord. 1865. 8vo. 6954 bouton. A Discourse on the Death of President Harrison, ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1879)
"AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NATHANIEL bouton.*—This is a book not only of rare interest but ... Dr. bouton, through a long life, was known and esteemed as one of the ..."

3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1879)
"AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NATHANIEL bouton.*—This is a book not only of rare interest but ... Dr. bouton, through a long life, was known and esteemed as one of the ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Colonel bouton, colored brigade, and Seventh Kansas cavalry, succeeded in ... Two miles out on the Tupelo road Colonel bouton ambushed with two companies ..."

5. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"Joseph Dudley in an address to the Crown, 3 bouton NH State Papers, p. 354. The text of the instrument has been reproduced in 1 bouton, NH Province Papers p ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1881)
"... and arrived at the conclusion that all the coses of so-called Aleppo bouton were modified forms of syphilis, lupus, or scrofula. ANTHRAX. ..."

7. Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum by Boston Athenaeum, Charles Ammi Cutter (1882)
"bouton, 1842. 8*. (В 1304) — Article on the debt» of US Boston. 1844. 8". ... bouton, 1825. 8°. (В 288) theca sacra. 1843. В 1647) — Same. 2d ed. ..."

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