Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun action_potential

1 sense of action potential

Sense 1
action potential -- (the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted)
       => nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulse -- (the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus")