caulescence

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin caulescentia.

Noun[edit]

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.

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