The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber.
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Examples for "impulse "
Examples for "impulse "
1 The solution was more the result of an impulse than careful planning.
2 The savage has only impulse ; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
3 The impulse behind H&F's ambitions seems to come from a different place.
4 In the spirit of mischief, he followed the impulse of the moment.
5 Still, quite a lot of the original impulse behind MacKaye's vision survives.
1 Increasing the stimulus does not increase the intensity of the nerve impulse .
2 This raises the question whether the Hodgkin-Huxley model is a complete model of the nerve impulse .
3 The threat response program in Ralph's neural nanonics bullied his leg muscles with nerve impulse overrides.
4 Don't ask me what-breaksdown the natural chemical regulators, or simply electrocutes them with nerve impulse surges.
5 This increase was calcium and nerve impulse - dependent , suggesting neuronal and glial origin of glutamate and arginine, respectively.
1 Her father started higher than the nervous impulse warranted in his chair.
2 Her first, nervous impulse was to look out the window toward Amalthea.
3 She smiled with lips that would pull to the nervous impulse to cry.
4 Things were getting too tense, and Travers yielded to a nervous impulse to laugh again.
5 She could not have told why she asked him to stay, it was a nervous impulse .
1 His neural impulses had slowed until they were as faint as fogbound harbour lights.
2 Neural impulses were inherently slower than electricity.
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