ACTION POTENTIAL


Meaning of ACTION POTENTIAL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1926

: a momentary reversal in electrical potential across a plasma membrane (as of a nerve cell or muscle fiber) that occurs when a cell has been activated by a stimulus

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