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Definition: Nerve Impulse |
Nerve ImpulseNoun1. The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | /in. . the cochlea. . . is situated the end organ of hearing or organ of Corti where mechanical vibrations set up nerve impulses in the fibres of the auditory nerve. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Nerve ImpulseSynonym: impulse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nerve Impulse |
| English words defined with "nerve impulse": action potential, Alan Hodgkin, all-or-none law, Andrew Fielding Huxley, Andrew Huxley ♦ centripetal, corticipetal, corticoafferent ♦ Hodgkin, Huxley ♦ neuromotor ♦ receptive, Reflex action, resting potential ♦ sensory, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nerve impulse": Adrenergic Fibers ♦ Cholinergic Fibers ♦ ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC TECHNICIAN, emg technicia ♦ Retinal Pigments. (references) |
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Health | The toxin weakens muscles by blocking the nerve impulse to the muscle. (references) | |
With this test, an image of the nerve impulse is projected on a screen as it transmits an electrical signal. (references) | ||
Since demyelinated nerves show abnormalities of potassium activity, scientists are studying drugs that block the channels through which potassium moves, thereby restoring conduction of the nerve impulse. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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nerve impulse | 16 |
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| Language | Translations for "nerve impulse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | influx nerveux. (various references) | ||||
German | Nervenimpuls. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ervenay impulseay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-l-m-n-p-r-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: unseemlier. | |
-3 letters: pelerines, perilunes, prelusive, pulverise, relumines, replevies, replevins, repulsive, spleenier, supervene. | |
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-5 letters: elevens, elusive, emeries, empires, emprise, enemies, enviers, epimere, epimers, erepsin, ermines, eserine, eveners, imprese, impulse, inverse, leisure, lemures, leviers, liernes, limners, limpers, lineups, livener, lumpens, lumpers, lumpier, lupines, merlins, misrule, mureins, murines, nervule, peelers, peeries, pensile, pensive, pilsner, plenism, plenums, plumier, preemie, prelims, premies, premise, premune, presume, previse, prevues, puerile, purines, purline, purlins, releves, relieve, relines, relives, relumes, repines, replies, repulse, revenue, reviles, rimples, rumples, seepier, servile, silvern, simpler, sleeper, spieler, spinule, spireme, spumier, supreme, surveil, umpires, unlives, unpiles, unreels, unreeve, unveils, uprisen, veeries, veilers, veiners, veinule, velures, veneers, venires, venules, vermeil, versine, vespine, vulpine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 72 76 65 49 6D 70 75 6C 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101101 01110000 01110101 01101100 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e r v e   I m p u l s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0072 0076 0065 0049 006D 0070 0075 006C 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4871848871243798287788571 |
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