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| the bestist roomie ever who loves Julia so much!! she also thinks she is funny sometimes. |
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| the measurable rate of transmission of the action potential; defines the time required for electrical information to travel from one end of a neuron to another |
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| a process by which ogliodendrocytes in the central nervous system (& Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system) wrap the axon in myelin |
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| consists of multiple layers of closely opposed glial membranes; acts as an electrical insulator & greatly speeds up action potential conduction |
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| a gap in the myelin wrapping of an axon; where the time-consuming process of action potential generation occurs |
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| type of propagation where the action potential jumps from node to node |
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