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Anatomy 12
nervous system II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| outside of membrane internal | positive negative (-70mV, not always) |
| Na+/K+ pump activity | 3 Na out for every 2 K in |
| fixed anions | protein |
| nerve impluse | also called action potential |
| hyperpolarization | membrane becomes more negative |
| depolarization | membrane becomes more positive |
| decremental | short distance communication (only in dendrites and cell body) |
| repolarization | ability to go back to resting state (probably -70) |
| action potential | sequence of rapidly occurring events that decrease and reverse membrane potential (depolarization) and restore it to resting state (repolarization) |
| all or none principal | if stimulus reaches threshold, action potential is always the same -strong stimulus does not give bigger impulse |