Aetna Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Bertolini said Wednesday the Affordable Care Act is fatally flawed and that he believes more insurers will follow Humana Inc. and quit public health exchanges entirely. It is in a death spiral, he said of Obamacare in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
syn-. 1. a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek, having the same function as co- (synthesis; synoptic); used, with the meaning âwith,â âtogether,â in the formation of compound words (synsepalous) or âsyntheticâ in such compounds (syngas). Also, sy-, syl-, sym-, sys-. Origin of syn-.
1 A synapse is the point of connection between the endfoot of one neuron and the membrane of another. The word is derived from Greek and means to fasten together.. It is at synapses that one cell influences the activity of another.  There are two broad categories of synapses: chemical synapses and electrical synapses.