nerve impulse

Questions about nerve impulse

What is another word for nerve impulse?

It depends which nerve impulse you mean. In the sense “the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber”, the synonyms are nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulse. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of nerve impulse?

WordNet records no antonym for nerve impulse. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for nerve impulse come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of nerve impulse

• Full entry for nerve impulseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nerve impulseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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