Search Result for "nerve impulse":
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]