And so the pseudopod was a water tentacle.

所以足类是水触手。

I came up with this idea for this alien probe that I called the pseudopod.

- 想到了这个称之为足的外星探测器的想法。

To carry out their search for filopodia, the trio used a sensitive microscopy technique called eMAP.They studied 2,234 synapses between cortical nerve cells of a type called pyramidal neurons (pictured), which have thousands of synapses each.

为了寻找丝状足，三人使用了一种称为 eMAP 的灵敏显微镜技术。 他们研究了一种称为锥体神元（如图）的皮质神细胞之间的 2, 234 个突触， 每个神元都有数千个突触。