EVOKED POTENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evoked potential mean? 

• EVOKED POTENTIAL (noun)
  The noun EVOKED POTENTIAL has 1 sense:

1. the electrical response of the central nervous system produced by an external stimulus

  Familiarity information: EVOKED POTENTIAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVOKED POTENTIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The electrical response of the central nervous system produced by an external stimulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

he measured evoked potentials with an electroencephalogram

Hypernyms ("evoked potential" is a kind of...):

electric potential; potential; potential difference; potential drop; voltage (the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts)