endplate

Examples

• All

• In all cases, the train-of-four stimulation before nerve exposure demonstrated the proper function of the motor endplate for valid recording of EMG activity.

  Academic text (2006)

• The earliest findings include erosive changes in the vertebral endplates and narrowing of disk spaces, but they may not manifest until 2 to 8 weeks after the onset of infection.

  Academic text (2004)

• The idea was to build a large chamber capable of electromagnetically preserving the ionized tracks left by passing particles, and to float these tracks, intact, to endplates that would use their drift time to reckon the exact geometry of the original trajectories.

  Academic text (1997)

• The endplate of the motor neuron transmits signals to the muscle fiber, initiating contraction.

• Electromyography tests show how well the endplate is functioning during muscle activation.

• Damage to the endplate can lead to weakness in muscle movements and reduced responsiveness.

Synonyms

S

synapse

vsendplate

• Specialized

24 6.1

A small gap where one nerve cell sends signals to another or to a muscle

is narrower and refers only to a neuron's flattened terminal to a muscle fiber

M

motor end plate

vsendplate

• Specialized

7.5

The place where a nerve connects to a muscle to make it move

is the single-word form referring to the identical terminal region

E

end-plate

vsendplate

• Specialized

8.4

The flat end of a nerve that sends signals to a muscle

is the unhyphenated form naming the same terminal region

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology