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Definition of Endplate
1. Noun. The flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle.
Definition of Endplate
1. Noun. (anatomy) A modified muscle fibre in the form of a flattened discoid at a neuromuscular junction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Endplate
1. a type of nerve terminal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endplate
Literary usage of Endplate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the Second Nimh Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"... The Acetylcholine Receptor: Functional Architecture and Gene Regulation During
endplate Development J.-P. Changeux CNRS UÀ ..."
2. Elements of Histology by Edward Klein, John Sydney Edkins (1898)
"fibre has at least one nerve endplate, but occasionally has several in near ...
The contraction wave generally starts from the endplate. The muscle g. 118. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"Afferent fibers connected with a kind of endplate are described in the wall of
small bloodvessels (Dogiel) and in the tunica intima of the aorta and ..."