mossy
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"The numbers of mossy cells decline with aging and Alzheimer's disease," said Alexendra Moser, PhD, a project scientist in the Svendsen Lab and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
These signals get transmitted through the granule cells' axons -- their arm-like extension, known as mossy fibers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Highly theatrical, it saw the 35-year-old perform inside a mossy grotto, singing on top of a giant mechanical beetle and ascending a tree trunk in fairy wings.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024
The style is evocative and creepy, thanks to rich production and costume design, the cramped house seemingly lost in time, surrounded by a damp, mossy forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
I placed two hands on the mossy wood and leapt over, landing on tiptoes and then sinking down.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
After that the most Jabez asked of Eddie was to write "Please remit" or "Past due" on the mossier bills.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
The new cottages are finely designed, but they are too black-and-white and painty to group easily with the older, mossier buildings and the White Hart Inn, with its nobly ugly sign.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
Ah," he said, "I have done fifty, without food, over the roughest and mossiest mountains.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
