Chemical synapse
: A synapse (Foster & Sherrington, 1897) using only neurotransmitters for communicating between the presynaptic compartment (De Camilli et al., 2001) and postsynaptic compartment (De Camilli et al., 2001); see Cowan et al. (2001).
    
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