neural impulse

Questions about neural impulse

What is another word for neural impulse?

It depends which neural impulse you mean. In the sense “the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber”, the synonyms are nerve impulse, nervous 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 neural impulse?

WordNet records no antonym for neural 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 neural 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 neural impulse

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