Definition of Dendritic

1. Adjective. (neuroscience) of or relating to or resembling a dendrite. "Dendritic fiber"

Partainyms: Dendrite
Derivative terms: Dendrite

Definition of Dendritic

1. a. Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Definition of Dendritic

1. Adjective. Having a branching structure similar to a tree ¹

2. Adjective. Of, pertaining to or possessing dendrites ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dendritic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Dendritic

1. 1. Branched like a tree. 2. Pertaining to or possessing dendrites. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dendritic

dendr-
dendrachate
dendrachates
dendraxon
dendric
dendriform
dendriform keratitis
dendrigraft
dendrigrafts
dendrimer
dendrimeric
dendrimers
dendrimersome
dendrite
dendrites
dendritic (current term)
dendritic calculus
dendritic cell
dendritic cells
dendritic corneal ulcer
dendritic depolarisation
dendritic keratitis
dendritic process
dendritic spine
dendritic spines
dendritic thorns
dendritic tree
dendritical
dendritogenesis

Literary usage of Dendritic

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

1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The closer the packing of the dendritic trunks, that is, the closer the individual trunks stand to each other, the smaller, first, will be the content of ..."

2. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The dendritic or branching arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms are illustrated by twenty-five plates, namely, Plates xxix. to liv. inclusive. ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1828)
"And Blumenbach says, in a letter to Baron Von Moll, that though he had hitherto disbelieved the occurrence of vegetable bodies in the dendritic variety of ..."

4. Clinical Studies in Vice and in Insanity by George Robert Wilson (1899)
"The dendritic System. I have said that the alcoholic lesion is one which primarily affects the dendritic systems of the cortex. The reason for affirming ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1828)
"And Blumenbach says, in a letter to Baron Von Moll, that though he had hitherto disbelieved the occurrence of vegetable bodies in the dendritic variety of ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The name dendritic-agate or tree- agate is given to these highly prized forms. Moss-agates abound at many localities in the United States, especially in ..."

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