ACTION POTENTIAL (AP)

the update in electric probability that circulates ahead in a cell during the course of the transmission of a nerve impulse or the shrinkage of a muscle. It is evident by an accelerated, transient depolarization of the cell

 

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Related terms:

  1. MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL
  2. Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential
  3. Resting Potential
  4. RESTING POTENTIAL
  5. ABUSE POTENTIAL
  6. MINIATURE END-PLATE POTENTIAL
  7. ACHIEVEMENT POTENTIAL
  8. AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL
  9. BRAIN POTENTIAL
  10. AROUSAL POTENTIAL