caulescence
English
Etymology
From Late Latin caulescentia.
Noun
caulescence (uncountable)
- (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, volume 16, DOI: :
- Meanwhile, their caulescence distribution falls above both axons and dendrites, similar to maximum branch order.
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Related terms
- caulescent