microzone

Noun

Meaning

microzone (plural microzones)

An extremely small area.

Examples

Finally, the axons of basket cells are much longer in the longitudinal direction than in the mediolateral direction, causing them to be confined largely to a single microzone. Source: Internet

It is not only receptive fields that define the microzone structure: The climbing fiber input from the inferior olivary nucleus is equally important. Source: Internet

The branches of a climbing fiber (usually numbering about 10) usually activate Purkinje cells belonging to the same microzone. Source: Internet

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