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Meanings of nervous impulse in English

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impuls nerviós

The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber.

impuls nerviós
Usage of nervous impulse in English
1
Her father started higher than the nervous impulse warranted in his chair.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
2
Her first, nervous impulse was to look out the window toward Amalthea.
Seveneves
3
She smiled with lips that would pull to the nervous impulse to cry.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
4
Things were getting too tense, and Travers yielded to a nervous impulse to laugh again.
The Place Beyond the Winds
5
She could not have told why she asked him to stay, it was a nervous impulse.
A Tale of a Lonely Parish
6
This has been very difficult, for we have no way of measuring a nervous impulse directly.
The Story of the Living Machine / A Review of the Conclusions of...
7
The lecturer then explained that the propagation of nervous impulse is a phenomenon of transmission of molecular disturbance.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches
8
But some nervous impulse goaded Stella.
The Lamp in the Desert
9
He heard the sob passing loudly down his father's throat and opened his eyes with a nervous impulse.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10
He plunged into the gloom, without deviating from his path, and conquered a nervous impulse that urged him to run.
The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
11
The nervous impulse persisted.
The Quiet Earth
12
In the injured patient the nervous impulse cannot reach the brain, the seat of consciousness, and hence this is not awakened.
The Whence and the Whither of Man / A Brief History of His Origi...
13
Teuf, teuf, teuf, teuf, went the machine, and ever and again-obeyingI know not what nervous impulse-thedriver sounded his horn.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
14
To make such measurement had been regarded as impossible, it being supposed that the flight of the nervous impulse was practically instantaneous.
A History of Science — Volume 4
15
She felt a nervous impulse to behave rudely, to declare the contempt it was always difficult to disguise when talking with Barmby.
In the Year of Jubilee
16
The velocity of the nervous impulse, which is only about one hundred feet per second, proves that it is not a current of electricity.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
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