synapse
<p>The word "synapse" – from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Greek</a> <i>synapsis</i> (<i>συνάψις</i>), meaning "conjunction", in turn from <i>συνάπτεὶν</i> (<i>συν</i> ("together") and <i>ἅπτειν</i> ("to fasten")) – was introduced in 1897 by the English neurophysiologist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Scott_Sherrington" title="Charles Scott Sherrington">Charles Sherrington</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foster%28physiologist%29" title="Michael Foster (physiologist)">Michael Foster</a>'s <i>Textbook of Physiology</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse#cite_note-:0-1">[1]</a></sup> Sherrington struggled to find a good term that emphasized a union between two <i>separate</i> elements, and the actual term "synapse" was suggested by the English classical scholar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Woollgar_Verrall" title="Arthur Woollgar Verrall">Arthur Woollgar Verrall</a>, a friend of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foster%28physiologist%29" title="Michael Foster (physiologist)">Michael Foster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup></p>