nervous impulse

1. 1.

   the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber

   “they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus”

   Synonymsnerve impulseneural impulseimpulse

   Broaderelectrical discharge

   Narroweraction potential

Questions about nervous impulse

What does nervous impulse mean?

nervous impulse means "the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber".

What is another word for nervous impulse?

Close synonyms include nerve impulse, neural impulse, impulse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nervous impulse a common word?

nervous impulse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.