REFRACTORY PERIOD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("refractory period" is a kind of...):

biological time (the time of various biological processes)

Domain category:

neurology (the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system)

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