myoneural junction n. The synaptic connection of the axon of a motor neuron with a muscle fiber.
The Alps are a range of mountains in Europe caused by uplift in the European Plate as it is impacted by the African Plate moving north; they stretch from Italy through France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and into Slovenia. The highest peaks in Europe (outside of the Caucasus mountains) are located in the Alps. Mont Blanc (4810 meters), Dufourspitze (4634 meters) and the world famous Matterhorn (4478 meters) are official and well known alpine four-thousanders. Many areas of the Alps are covered by eternal snow and ice.
That honor belongs to the Dufourspitze, the crowning peak of the Monte Rosa massif, located a few miles east of the Matterhorn and rising just over 150 m/500 feet higher. Other confusing myths swirl around the Dufourspitze. It is not the highest point in Italy as well as Switzerland, as is sometimes claimed--indeed, the actual summit lies 160m west of the border, entirely on the Swiss side. Switzerland, an honor sometimes given to the Dom (14,911'/4545m), high point of the nearby Mischabel range.