dentate
Americanadjective
adjective
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having teeth or toothlike processes
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(of leaves) having a toothed margin
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Etymology
Origin of dentate
1800–10; < Latin dentātus, equivalent to dent- (stem of dēns ) tooth + -ātus -ate 1
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The hippocampus, a brain region important for forming memories linked to specific places and contexts, produces new neurons daily in an area called the dentate gyrus.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2024
One of the most striking findings were in cells of the dentate gyrus, where the researchers detected an important reduction of the expression of Snhg11.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024
It receives incoming data from the entorhinal cortex, which relays perceptual information to a class of excitatory neurons — granule cells — in a part of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.
From Nature • Jul. 8, 2014
"There is a certain unsafeness in the Philippines, but Cambodia is probably worse," Volker declares as we amble through his garden, past beds of dentate flytraps and sticky sundews.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2012
Leaflets.—Seven to nine; glossy; ovate to oblong-lanceolate; one and one half to four inches long; acuminate; sinuately dentate, with numerous spinose teeth; the lowest pair distant from the stem.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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