nerve impulse transmission

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• nerve impulse — noun the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus • Syn: ↑nervous impulse, ↑neural impulse, ↑impulse • Hypernyms: ↑electrical discharge …   Useful english dictionary

• transmission — 1. SYN: transfer. 2. The conveyance of disease from one person to another. 3. The passage of a nerve impulse across an anatomic cleft, as in autonomic or central nervous system synapses and at neuromuscular junctions, by …   Medical dictionary

• transmission — noun Etymology: Middle French, from Latin transmission , transmissio, from transmittere to transmit Date: 1611 1. an act, process, or instance of transmitting < transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse > 2. the passage of radio waves in… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• nervous impulse — noun the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus • Syn: ↑nerve impulse, ↑neural impulse, ↑impulse • Hypernyms: ↑electrical discharge …   Useful english dictionary

• neural impulse — noun the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus • Syn: ↑nerve impulse, ↑nervous impulse, ↑impulse • Hypernyms: ↑electrical discharge …   Useful english dictionary

• ectopic impulse — 1. the impulse that causes an ectopic beat. 2. a pathologic nerve impulse that begins in the middle of an axon and proceeds simultaneously towards the cell body and the periphery; it may be connected to a paresthesia or some other disorder of… …   Medical dictionary

• ephaptic transmission — the conduction of a nerve impulse across an ephapse, as opposed to synaptic transmission …   Medical dictionary

• block — 1. To obstruct; to arrest passage through. 2. A condition in which the passage of an electrical impulse is arrested, wholly or in part, temporarily or permanently. 3. SYN: atrioventricular b.. [Fr. bloquer] alveolocapillary b. the presence of… …   Medical dictionary

• Nobel Prize winners by name — ▪ Table Nobel Prize winners by name A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z A name year category country* achievement literary area Abrikosov, Alexey A. 2003 physics U.S. discoveries… …   Universalium

• Nobel Prize winners by category (physiology or medicine) — ▪ Table Nobel Prize winners by category (physiology or medicine) year name country* achievement 1901 Behring, Emil von Germany work on serum therapy 1902 Ross, Sir Ronald U.K. discovery of how malaria enters an organism 1903 Finsen, Niels Ryberg… …   Universalium

• blockade — 1. Intravenous injection of large amounts of colloidal dyes or other substances in order to block reticuloendothelial cells ( e.g., phagocytosis is temporarily prevented). 2. Receptor b., blocking the effect of a …   Medical dictionary