| Wedensky effect | A relatively long enhancing effect following application of a maximal shock or stimulus to a neuromuscular preparation during which a subthreshold stimulation, otherwise too small to evoke a response, will produce a response; a relatively prolonged lowered threshold of excitability following a maximal shock. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wedensky facilitation | The arrival of an impulse at a blocked zone, enhancing the excitability of the nerve beyond the block and indicating that the neuromuscular preparation distal to the block has been changed even though the enhancing stimulus is not conducted through the blocked zone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wedensky inhibition | Inhibition of muscle response resulting from application of a series of rapidly repeated stimuli to the motor nerve where slower frequency of stimulation results in muscle response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wedensky, Nikolai | <person> Russian neurophysiologist, 1852-1922. See: Wedensky effect, Wedensky facilitation, Wedensky inhibition. (05 Mar 2000) |