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Terminology

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Automaticity   Ability to initiate an impulse spontaneously & continuously.  
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Excitability   Ability to be electrically stimulated.  
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Conductivity   Ability to transmit an impulse along a membrane in an orderly manner.  
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Contractility   Ability to respond mechanically to an impulse.  
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Depolarization   Reduction of a membrane potential to a less negative value. It is caused by the influx of cations, such NA & Ca, through ion channels in the membrane. In many neurons and muscle cells, Depolarization leads to an electris impulse caled an action potentia  
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Repolarization   the re-establishment of polarity, especially The return of cell membrane potential to resting potential after depolarization.  
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Cardiac cycle   Referring to all or any of the events related to the flow or blood pressure that occurs from the beginning of one heartbeat to the beginning of the next. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_cycle#Stages_of_the_cardiac_cycle  
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Sinus rhythm   The normal beating of the heart, as measured by an electrocardiogram (ECG).  
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