arborisation

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English

Etymology

From arborise +‎ -ation.

Noun

arborisation (plural arborisations)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of arborization (branching, tree-like formation).
    • 2005, Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Miriam A. Hickey, Sheila M. Fleming, Pierre-Olivier Fernagut, “Early behavioral phenotypes in mouse models of Huntington’s and Parkinson’s diseases”, in J. Paul Bolam, Cali A. Ingham, Peter J. Magill, editors, The Basal Ganglia VIII, page 352:
      These mice exhibit degenerative changes very reminiscent of HD patient pathology including loss of striatal volume, loss of medium spiny neuron arborisation, presence of dark neurons and development of intranuclear and neuropil aggregates

French

Etymology

From arboriser +‎ -ation.

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Noun

arborisation f (plural arborisations)

  1. treeplanting
  2. arborization, branching
    Synonym: ramification

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