nervous impulse

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Noun1.nervous impulse - the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
electrical discharge - a discharge of electricity
action potential - the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
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An intricate balance of muscle strength and nervous impulse moves an astonishing 2,000 gallons of blood every day with approximately 100,000 heartbeats.
Patients often have their eyes open and it appears they can look around, but the movement is due to a nervous impulse.
It is the job of these extremely delicate and sensitive hair cells to transform the mechanical energy of the vibrating sound waves to a nervous impulse which, in turn, is processed by the human brain.
Nevertheless, far from such a racist stance, one must also say that what this officer committed against his fellow soldiers, whether it was the result of a nervous impulse or whether its background and motives were suicidal, as preliminary reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have begun to indicate, will lead to negative reactions which Muslims enlisted in the US Army, who number nearly twenty thousand officers and soldiers, will pay the price for, whether in terms of promotions or of the way they are dealt with by their colleagues.
It occurs because they try to time the moment of the shot and it grows into a nervous impulse that makes accurate shooting difficult.
If not firmly under the thumb of the chief executive, they indulge a nervous impulse: they keep pulling up the flowers to see how the roots are growing.
While conceding that anatomical eye evolution can be accounted for by gradual evolution, the author concludes that the sequence of reactions required to convert absorption of photons by rhodopsin into a nervous impulse and restore rhodopsin is an example of irreducible complexity.
Helmholtz explored human physiology, in its entirety, making fundamental contributions to audition, vision, the conduction of the nervous impulse and, perhaps most important in so far as systems biology is concerned, physiologic energy balance.
the point at which a nervous impulse passes from one neuron to another
The deep abdominal breathing and practices like Jalandhar bandha, strengthens the spinal cord .Although, the nervous system is in complete working order, and if the secretion of endocrine glands are insufficient then the force of the nervous impulses will be less.
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