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Dendrite vs Backpropagate - What's the difference?

dendrite | backpropagate |

As a noun dendrite

is (cytology) a slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.

As a verb backpropagate is

(neurology|of an action potential) to propagate back through to the dendrites from which the original input was received.

dendrite

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cytology) A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
  • (cytology) Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.
  • (crystallography, metallurgy) tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes
  • A hermit who lived in a tree

    • Derived terms

    * dendritic

    See also

    * axon * neuron * synapse ----

    backpropagate

    English

    Verb

  • (neurology, of an action potential) To propagate back through to the dendrites from which the original input was received
  • *{{quote-journal
    • , date = 2001-01-05 , title = Differential Shunting of EPSPs by Action Potentials , journal = , url = http://www.sciencemag.org/content/291/5501/138/rel-suppl/7e88ac3c9f199276/suppl/DC1 , doi = 10.1126/science.291.5501.138 , issn = 0036-8075 , volume = 291 , issue = 5501 , pages = 138-141 , passage = These results demonstrate that the predicted reduction in synaptic driving force caused by appropriately timed backpropagating APs only slightly increases shunting of proximal synaptic inputs at their site of generation and at the soma. }}