NERVOUS IMPULSE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber

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 ("nervous impulse" is a kind of...):

electrical discharge (a discharge of electricity)

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

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