synapse

Term: synapse

Origin: Anc Greek σύναψις/synapsis(=conjuction)

συν-/syn (prefix denoting  “with, together with”)

+άπτω/hapto (=fasten, adapt, clasp, bind)

Coined: in 1897 by the English physiologist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) and colleagues. Sherrington shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1932 with Lord Edgar Douglas Adrian of Cambridge University for "their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons."

Definition:

A  synapse is a junction where  a neuron relayed an electrical or chemical signal to another cell (neuron, muscle , or gland cell).