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Depolarization

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of depriving of polarity or removing the effects of polarization.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a loss of polarity or polarization

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"Locally it blocks the initiation and propagation of nerve impulses along an axon by interference with sodium permeability during depolarization. 3,11 Centrally it blocks the presynaptic reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine."

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