action potential

noun

noun

Medicine, Physiology, Sciences A short-term change in the electrical potential that travels along a cell such as a nerve or muscle fiber.

Even some single-celled organisms have action potentials.2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 23:

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