Sentence examples for nervous impulse from inspiring English sources

Publications by Hodgkin include Conduction of the Nervous Impulse (1964) and his autobiography, Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War (1992).

Myelin is a fatty substance which wraps itself around nerve fibres, preventing leakage of electrical current and facilitating the conductance of nervous impulse.

When a nervous impulse arrives at the terminal, it causes a few of the vesicles to fuse with the membrane and release their contents.

Sherrington coined the term synapse to denote the point at which the nervous impulse is transmitted from one nerve cell to another.

We had already bought the tickets and booked the rooms and read the guidebooks and got the inoculations, so despite the natural nervous impulse to hunker down, we decided to stick to our plans rather than postpone the trip until the girls' summer vacation.

In his book Up From Communism, the historian John Diggins sums up Garry Wills's funny take on this: "In Nixon Agonistes, [Wills] repudiated conservative politics as a 'mishmash' of alliances with no theoretical bond other than a common nervous impulse to defend the powerful against the powerless".

This triggers nervous impulses that are propagated into the spinal cord and then relayed up to the brain.

This causes the nociceptors to generate nervous impulses, which are transmitted along the fibre into the spinal cord.

Synapses are polarizing elements that separate one cell from another in the neuron chains along which nervous impulses travel.

Next, they connected the brain slices artificial skin, and showed that applying pressure to the sensors elicits trains of nervous impulses that activate the somatosensory neurons.

Osteopathic research studies include anatomy and function of nerve-and-muscle junctions, transmission of nervous impulses, somatic reflex functions, renal (kidney) growth and function, and blood-flow dynamics.