Meanings
nouncaulescence (uncountable)
- uncountablebiologyThe degree to which something, such as a plant or neuron, has a well-formed main stem.
Meanwhile, their caulescence distribution falls above both axons and dendrites, similar to maximum branch order.
2015 July 10, Todd A Gillette, Giorgio A Ascoli, “Topological characterization of neuronal arbor morphology via sequence representation: I - motif analysis”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16, →DOI
Origin
From Late Latin caulescentia.
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