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Complete Definition of "nerve impulse"

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Noun
nerve impulse

  1. physiology The signal transmitted along a nerve fibre, either in response to a stimulus (such as touch, pain or heat), or as an instruction (such as causing a muscle to contract).

Translations
Finnish: hermoimpulssi

See also
action potential
synapse
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