NERVOUS IMPULSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nervous impulse mean? 

• NERVOUS IMPULSE (noun)
  The noun NERVOUS IMPULSE has 1 sense:

1. the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber

  Familiarity information: NERVOUS IMPULSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVOUS IMPULSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

impulse; nerve impulse; nervous impulse; neural impulse

Context example:

they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus

Hypernyms ("nervous impulse" is a kind of...):

electrical discharge (a discharge of electricity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nervous impulse"):

action potential (the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted)