caulescence

English

Etymology

From Late Latin caulescentia.

Noun

caulescence (uncountable)

1. (botany, neurology) The degree to which something, such as a plant or neuron, has a well-formed main stem.
   • 2015 July 10, Todd A Gillette, Giorgio A Ascoli, “Topological characterization of neuronal arbor morphology via sequence representation: I - motif analysis”, in BMC Bioinformatics‎^[1], volume 16, →DOI:

     Meanwhile, their caulescence distribution falls above both axons and dendrites, similar to maximum branch order.

Related terms

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