RESTING POTENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resting potential mean? 

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

1. the potential difference between the two sides of the membrane of a nerve cell when the cell is not conducting an impulse

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTING POTENTIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The potential difference between the two sides of the membrane of a nerve cell when the cell is not conducting an impulse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("resting 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)

 Context examples 

These ion channels then affect the resting potential of the post synaptic cell.

(Chemical Synapse, NCI Thesaurus)