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REFRACTORY PERIOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("refractory period" is a kind of...):
biological time (the time of various biological processes)
Domain category:
neurology (the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system)
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