dentate
Americanadjective
adjective
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having teeth or toothlike processes
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(of leaves) having a toothed margin
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of dentate
1800–10; < Latin dentātus, equivalent to dent- (stem of dēns ) tooth + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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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
Most lost are dentate gyrus neuroblasts, which are essential for creating neurons in the hippocampus, a region linked to memory and diseases like Alzheimer's.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
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
The body is globular, the neck is very short and is ornamented with a dentate band.
From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by William Henry Holmes
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