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Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852–1934) marveled at these near-unions of neurons, calling them “protoplasmic kisses.”
“Like elegant ladies air-kissing so as not to muss their makeup, dendrites and axons don’t quite touch,

– Diane Ackerman (2004)

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