apical
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Between three and eight weeks of age, a period that spans early childhood to adolescence, spine density increased sharply in a single region of the apical dendrite.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
Using high-resolution microscopy, the team closely tracked how apical progenitor cells divided.
From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025
They wanted to know if the distal apical dendrites processed visual stimuli differently from their cell bodies when the signals both matched and violated expected patterns.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023
The apical complex is specialized for entry and infection of host cells.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Stamens definite; anthers opening by an apical pore.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.