(neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
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(neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus
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(neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (‘phr…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
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the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each propriet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mothe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: neurophysiology, nerve, impulse, resulting, weak.
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