| TONE | tilted optimized nonsaturating excitation |
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| VST | ventral spinothalamic tract; volume-selective excitation |
| PS test | Pancreozymin-Secretion test = combined secretin-CCK test |
| SIADH | Syndrome of Inappropriate secretion of Anti-Diuretic Hormone; 항이뇨 호르몬 분비 이상 증후군 |
| ANESR | apparent norepinephrine secretion rate |
| electrical coupling | <physiology> General term for an intimate cytoplasmic contact, mediated by gap junctions, between touching cells, such that electrical current injected into either cell changes the membrane potential of both. In neurons, arrays of gap junctions form electrical synapses, that allow action potentials to pass directly between cells. However, electrical coupling is not confined to excitable cells: many embryonic and adult epithelia are coupled, possibly to allow metabolic cooperation. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| electromagnetic coupling | <physics> A means of extracting energy from a magnetically confined plasma, where the plasma expands and pushes on the confining magnetic field, causing electrical energy to be generated in the external field-generating circuits. (09 Oct 1997) |
| energy coupling | <chemistry> The tranfer of energy produced in one reaction to another. (09 Oct 1997) |
| fixed coupling | Where several premature beats are seen, the interval between each of them and the preceding normal beat is constant. Synonym: constant coupling. Variable coupling, where several extrasystoles are seen, the interval between each of them and the preceding sinus beat varies. (05 Mar 2000) |