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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber;
- Example: "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
[syn: nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulse]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

nerve impulse n 1: the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus" [syn: nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulse]