neuromuscular junction

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   the junction between a nerve fiber and the muscle it supplies

   Synonymsmyoneural junction

   Broadersynapse

Questions about neuromuscular junction

What does neuromuscular junction mean?

neuromuscular junction means "the junction between a nerve fiber and the muscle it supplies".

What is another word for neuromuscular junction?

Close synonyms include myoneural junction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is neuromuscular junction a common word?

neuromuscular junction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.