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PRONUNCIATION OF ELECTROTONIC

electrotonic  [ɪˌlektrəʊˈtɒnɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELECTROTONIC

noun
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Electrotonic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ELECTROTONIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Electrotonic potential

In physiology, electrotonus refers to the passive spread of charge inside a neuron. Passive means that voltage-dependent changes in membrane conductance do not contribute. Neurons and other excitable cells produce two types of electrical potential: ▪ Electrotonic potential — a non-propagated local potential, resulting from a local change in ionic conductance. When it spreads along a stretch of membrane, it becomes exponentially smaller. ▪ action potential — a propagated impulse. Electrotonic potentials represent changes to the neuron's membrane potential that do not lead to the generation of new current by action potentials. Neurons which are small in relation to their length, such as some neurons in the brain have only electrotonic potentials; longer neurons utilize electrotonic potentials to trigger the action potential. The electrotonic potential travels via electrotonic spread, which amounts to attraction of opposite- and reflection of like-charged ions within the cell. Electrotonic potentials can sum spatially or temporally.

Definition of electrotonic in the English dictionary

The definition of electrotonic in the dictionary is of, relating to, or characterized by electrotonus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELECTROTONIC


architectonic
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atonic
eɪˈtɒnɪk
cardiotonic
ˌkɑːdɪəʊˈtɒnɪk
cerebrotonic
ˌserɪbrəʊˈtɒnɪk
excitonic
ˌeksaɪˈtɒnɪk
hypotonic
ˌhaɪpəˈtɒnɪk
isotonic
ˌaɪsəʊˈtɒnɪk
monotonic
ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk
myotonic
ˌmaɪəˈtɒnɪk
pentatonic
ˌpɛntəˈtɒnɪk
photonic
fəʊˈtɒnɪk
phototonic
ˌfəʊtəʊˈtɒnɪk
Platonic
pləˈtɒnɪk
plutonic
pluːˈtɒnɪk
protonic
prəʊˈtɒnɪk
somatotonic
ˌsəʊmətəʊˈtɒnɪk
tectonic
tɛkˈtɒnɪk
Teutonic
tjuːˈtɒnɪk
tonic
ˈtɒnɪk
viscerotonic
ˌvɪsərəʊˈtɒnɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELECTROTONIC

electrotechnician
electrotechnics
electrotechnological
electrotechnology
electrotherapeutic
electrotherapeutical
electrotherapeutics
electrotherapist
electrotherapy
electrothermal
electrothermal printer
electrothermic
electrothermy
electrotint
electrotonus
electrotype
electrotyper
electrotypic
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electrotypy

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELECTROTONIC

acetonic
catatonic
cratonic
daltonic
diatonic
dystonic
electronic
epitonic
geotectonic
hypertonic
Indian tonic
ketonic
leptonic
Miltonic
nektonic
Neo-Platonic
neustonic
phytoplanktonic
subtonic
supertonic
syntonic

Synonyms and antonyms of electrotonic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «electrotonic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELECTROTONIC

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Translator English - Chinese

电紧张
1,325 millions of speakers

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electrotonic
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electrotonic
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Translator English - Hindi

इलेक्ट्रोटोनिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سريان التيار الكهربي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

электротоническое
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eletrotônicos
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electrotonic
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Translator English - French

électrotonique
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Electrotonic
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Translator English - German

elektrotonische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

電気緊張
130 millions of speakers

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electrotonic
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Electrotonic
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lực điện
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electrotonic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इलेक्ट्रोचोनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elektrotonik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

elettrotonica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

elektrotoniczną
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

електротоніческі
40 millions of speakers

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electrotonic
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electrotonic
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Translator English - Afrikaans

electrotonic
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Translator English - Swedish

electrotonic
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electrotonic
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Trends of use of electrotonic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELECTROTONIC»

The term «electrotonic» is normally little used and occupies the 133.311 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELECTROTONIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about electrotonic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELECTROTONIC»

Discover the use of electrotonic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to electrotonic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Review of Veterinary Physiology
The speed of electrotonic conduction along a nerve fiber is primarily determined by the: a. Activity of its Na K pump in the plasma membrane. b. Resistance to electrotonic current flow across the membrane. c. Membrane capacitance. d.
Larry Engelking, 2002
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From Molecules to Networks: An Introduction to Cellular and ...
Balanced against this high input resistance is a second factor: the small branch has a very large conductance load on it because of the presence of the dendritic tree. As a result, there is a steep decrement in the electrotonic potential spreading ...
John H. Byrne, Ruth Heidelberger, M. Neal Waxham, 2014
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Textbook Of Medical Physiology
ELECTROTONIC POTENTIAL AND LOCAL RESPONSE When a nerve fibre is stimulated by subminimal or subthreshold stimuli the action potential is not produced, but there do occur some changes in the resting membrane potential.
Khurana, 2005
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Principles of Medical Physiology
B and the weaker is the electrotonic conduction. (2) The resistance (Ro) offered by the extracellular fluid to the outer longitudinal current. The greater this resistance, the weaker is the electrotonic conduction. Ro usually remains constant.
Sabyasachi Sircar, 2008
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Mathematical Modeling of Electrotonic Interactions Between ...
Our simulations suggest that the fibroblast not only significantly alters the action potential waveform of the myocyte to which it is coupled, but it may have significant consequences for the contractility of the heart ventricle.
Andrew MacCannell, 2007
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Modeling in the Neurosciences: From Ionic Channels to Neural ...
The cable equation can be rewritten in terms of dimensionless, or electrotonic units. Electrotonic length is measured in units of the space constant, A,, which is actually a function of dendritic diameter, while electrotonic time is measured in units ...
R.R. Poznanski, 1999
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Fundamental Neuroscience
Understanding them is essential for describing electrotonic spread under the different conditions that the nervous system presents. Electrotonic Spread Depends on the Characteristic Length We begin by using the assumptions in Box 5.1 to ...
Larry Squire, Floyd E. Bloom, Nicholas C. Spitzer, 2008
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Modeling in the Neurosciences: From Biological Systems to ...
10.2.1 Construction of the Discrete Model Dendrite Suppose that a branched dendrite with n dendritic segments of lengths LI, L,, is transformed by the nondimensionalization (10.3) into a branched dendrite with segments of electrotonic length ...
G. N. Reeke, R.R. Poznanski, K. A. Lindsay, 2004
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7
2.3 THE ELECTROTONIC TRANSFORMATION The basic idea of the electrotonic transformation is to remap the cell from anatomical space into "electrotonic space ," where the distance between points reflects the attenuation of an electrical ...
Gerald Tesauro, David S. Touretzky, Todd K. Leen, 1995
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The Physiology of Excitable Cells
12. Electrotonic. transmission. and. coupling. Orthodromic Antidromic Figure 12.6 . The rectifying properties of the crayfish. We have seen in chapter 7 that the controversy as to whether synaptic transmission was electrical or chemical in nature ...
David J. Aidley, 1998

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELECTROTONIC»

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Quantifying the Number of Discriminable Coincident Dendritic Input …
From a functional point of view, dendrites were generally recognized as passive electrotonic compartments, which conveyed and integrated the ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
2
The Long Road to Maxwell's Equations
A major seed was planted by Faraday, who envisioned a mysterious, invisible “electrotonic state” surrounding the magnet—what we would ... «IEEE Spectrum, Nov 14»
3
Rs. 51 lakh of TAXPAYERS' MONEY spent on electrical …
"Last year some electrotonic items were replaced with new ones, so the cost has increased," explained the officer. The CPWD employees ... «Daily Bhaskar, Sep 14»
4
Fast spiking axons take mitochondria for a ride
The simplistic "electrotonic" conceptualization of the massive Purkinje tree, for example, seems to make little sense if the informational output of ... «Medical Xpress, Jan 14»

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