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Meaning of "electrotonus" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ELECTROTONUS

From New Latin, from electro- + Latin tonustone.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ELECTROTONUS

ɪlɛkˈtrɒtənəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELECTROTONUS

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Electrotonus is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ELECTROTONUS 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 electrotonus in the English dictionary

The definition of electrotonus in the dictionary is the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current.

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Synonyms and antonyms of electrotonus in the English dictionary of synonyms

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电紧张
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electrotonus
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electrotonus
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electrotonus
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توترية كهربية
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электротон
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electrotonus
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electrotonus
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électrotonus
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Electrotonus
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Elektrotonus
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電気緊張
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electrotonus
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Electrotonus
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electrotonus
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மின்னதிர்வுக்குட்பட்ட
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इलेक्ट्राोटोनस
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electrotonus
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dell´elettrotono
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electrotonus
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електротон
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electrotonus
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ELECTROTONUS
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electrotonus
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electrotonus
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELECTROTONUS»

Discover the use of electrotonus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to electrotonus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Axon: Structure, Function, and Pathophysiology
The best supporting evidence for Hill's theory came from Solandt (1936), but he soaked his frog nerves in up to 16 mM KC1 before use to reduce "changes in excitability due to electrotonus." This was unfortunate, because accommodation ...
Stephen G. Waxman, Jeffery D. Kocsis, Peter K. Stys, 1995
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: ...
Electrotonus is a physical phenomenon inasmuch as it occurs on any polarisable core model, and, in such case, it is not affected by anaesthetics. But it is also a physiological phenomenon, inasmuch as the chemical instability, viz., ...
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Electrodiagnosis in Diseases of Nerve and Muscle: Principles ...
Subthreshold electrotonus probably does not involve Kf2 currents related to F channels, which respond to a greater depolarization compared to I channels. Subthreshold hyperpolarization activates inward rectification, gIR. The channel ...
Jun Kimura, 2013
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
This is called electrotonus or passive spread. In its quiescent state, the voltage all along the inside of the axon has the constant resting value vr . Both ∂v/∂t and ∂ 2v/∂x2 are zero. Equation 6.52 can be satisfied only if jm = 0. Although jm is ...
Russell K. Hobbie, Bradley J. Roth, 2007
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Text-book of Human Physiology, Including Histology and ...
Testing Electrotonus in Inhibitory Nerves. — In order to ascertain the action of the cardioinhibitory vagus libers in electrotonus Landois proceeded as follows: If dyspnea be excited in rabbits, the number of heart-beats diminishes because the  ...
Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker, Augustus Adolph Eshner, 1905
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Peripheral Nerve Disorders: Handbook of Clinical Neurology ...
TE Threshold Electrotonus Fig. 4.3. Left panel: the current utilized to produce the threshold electrotonus waveform, with colored bars reflecting the corresponding points on the threshold electrotonus curve. Middle panel: threshold electrotonus ...
Gérard Said, Christian Krarup, 2013
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The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: A Historical Study ...
The first, in which the author defined certain terms such as electrotonus, which is today used to describe the longitudinal spread of current in the nerve or the state of polarization, has been taken from the third edition (Berlin, 1870). EXCERPI ...
Edwin Clarke, Charles Donald O'Malley, 1996
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Peripheral Nerve Diseases
Threshold electrotonus Changes in potential of the nodal membrane spread into the internode, but slowly because of the resistance of the myelin sheath and consequently the slow charging of the internodal capacitance. This results in slow ...
Jun Kimura, 2006
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From Molecules to Networks: An Introduction to Cellular and ...
(B) Abstraction of an equivalent electrical circuit based on the membrane capacitance (cm), membrane resistance (rm), resting membrane potential (Er), and internal resistance (r;). (C) Abstraction of the circuit for steady-state electrotonus, ...
Ruth Heidelberger, M. Neal Waxham, John H. Byrne, 2009
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Physiology and Biochemistry: Physiology and Biochemistry
The spread that occurs as though the fiber is passive (that is, the fiber does not alter in such a way as to generate an action potential) is called electrotonus. In contrast, the propagated wave of altered electrical potential difference in response ...
Geoffrey Bourne, 2014
REFERENCE
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