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    NEURAL IMPULSE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiberplay

    Example:

    they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus

    Synonyms:

    impulse; nerve impulse; nervous impulse; neural impulse

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural events

    Hypernyms ("neural impulse" is a kind of...):

    electrical discharge (a discharge of electricity)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neural impulse"):

    action potential (the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted)

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