A comprehensive description or map of structural connections within a brain or nervous system.
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- map a connectome
- a human connectome
- connectome reconstruction
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The researchers reconstructed a connectome from thousands of overlapping scans.
A connectome alone did not explain every change in the patient's behavior.
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Primary category: sci-fi literary / speculative. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Singular connectome; plural connectomes. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Full slower extraction directly read: biology noun complete description of structural connections in brain or nervous system. Does not itself imply personality or consciousness upload. Individual usefulness checked for a distinct speculative-writing function. Original definitions and examples; hypothetical theories and fictional applications are not presented as established findings. No inherent mood or intensity is assigned. Writing functions: neural wiring maps, limits of structural brain models.
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