How to Use dendrite in a Sentence

dendrite

noun
  • Lithium dendrite can cause a short circuit that sparks a fire, Chen wrote.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Pyramidal cells shoot one thick dendrite up to the brain’s surface, like a periscope.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
  • Many of the fatal flaws in lithium are related to the same dendrite problem.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Duller, shallower dendrites don’t pierce the battery and cause fires.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Mar. 2020
  • But a new approach instead aims to act like dendrites, the spindly structures that branch out from the nucleus of a neuron like the roots of a tree.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This build-up, known as lithium dendrite, can short-circuit the battery and shorten its life.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • The synapse is the space that separates a dendrite or axon from another cell.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • First, playing chess stimulates the growth of dendrites.
    — Michael Ciamarra, AL.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Vascular changes and the sprouting and pruning of axons and dendrites that extend from the main body of a neuron could also do the same.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Each axon connects with the dendrites of tens of thousands of Purkinje cells.
    — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Those stress hormones can start killing off dendrites - the little branches in brain cells that transmit messages.
    — William Wan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
  • Those stress hormones can start killing off dendrites — the little branches in brain cells that transmit messages.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • The fan’s blades are the neuron’s dendrites, which receive incoming signals.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Severe kinds of stresses in animals cause the elimination of synapses in the brain and, in fact, can prune whole branches of the inputs, or dendrites, to a cell.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • The top-right cube shows only dendrites, the signal-receiving portions of neurons.
    — Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Simply slide the spiral base over your tree’s topmost branch, and let the silvery dendrites nestle into the branches as though this snowflake topper floated down from the sky.
    — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
  • This effectively limited the dendrite growth that occurs in the clouds.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Some dendrites focused the light, channeling it outward like a kitschy fiber optic light display.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The researchers have struggled with dendrites – spiky metallic formations that can cause a battery to short-circuit.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
  • From the ceiling hung a twisted glass chandelier by Eric Dunn, its spiked lampshades mimicking the tendrils of a brain’s dendrites.
    — Renée Reizman, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Previous research found the order in which a dendrite receives signals from its branches governs the strength of its response.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The neurons in the images, their dendrites and axons emanating from their somas, look like spiders with dozens of legs stretched to the breaking point in all directions.
    — Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
  • The space between an axon terminal and a dendrite, where chemical signals are deposited and picked up, is called a synapse.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In a similar way, the branching of axons and dendrites from neurons also obeys local growth principles.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 July 2017
  • But the fluid is prone to forming dendrites—microscopic lithium fibers that can cause batteries to short-circuit and heat up rapidly.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
  • This suggested that the ability to cross membranes, which are very water-repellant, might be needed to promote changes in dendrites.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Look, Cajal’s Miró-esque drawings call out: Nerve cells conduct signals down their axon, into dendrites on the receiving cell, through the body of the receiving cell, and out its axons to the next cell in the circuit.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 3 May 2018
  • The technology is tantalizing, but it's troubled by the formation of dendrites—spikes of lithium crystals that can grow and puncture the cathode.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • To visualize the elements that make up neurons—axons, dendrites, and cell bodies—Seung and Berger used a computer to draw 3-D surfaces around the neural structures found in the cube.
    — Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • This can cause chemical reactions that produce very sharp lithium needles called dendrites on the battery’s anode – the electrode with a negative charge.
    — Apparao Rao, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024

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