Meanings
adjectivetrisynaptic (not comparable)
- not comparableInvolving three synapses.
The ability for one-trial rapid learning is a hippocampus-specific cognitive function requiring place information to traverse the full trisynaptic pathway (entorhinal cortex → DG → CA3 →CA1 → entorhinal cortex).
2015 August 25, “Changes in Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in a Direct Cranial Blast Traumatic Brain Injury (dc-bTBI) Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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