refractory period
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrefractoryandperiod
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refractory
adjective
uk/rɪˈfræk.tər.i/us/rɪˈfræk.tər.i/
medical,sciencespecialized
not affected by a treatment, change, ...
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period
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɪə.ri.əd/us/ˈpɪr.i.əd/
a length ...
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This correlation indicated the influence of arefractoryperiodon the bursts' proper ties.
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Pharmacological modulation of therefractoryperiodof retinal spreading depression.
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The presence of such a pituitary - adrenalrefractoryperiodin nonhuman primates and humans remains controversial.
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The antegrade effectiverefractoryperiodof the accessory pathway in two of the three patients was greater than 600 msec.
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In this way, sequences of simulated spike timings were generated which corresponded to the measured data in terms of firing rate andrefractoryperiod.
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Thisrefractoryperiodis long (more than 100 s in duration) and is different from therefractoryperiodthat follows a spike.
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Here we model refractoriness as "absolute," so that the probability of firing recovers instantaneously at the end of therefractoryperiod.
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This definition of threshold assumes arefractoryperiodfollowing the burst.
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An absoluterefractoryperiodprevented a second spike from being generated within 1 ms of a previous spike.
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Could waning delta power in fact aggrandize therefractoryperiod?
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The effectiverefractoryperiodof the atrioventricular node was 210 msec.
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This firing, which corresponds to the burst, is followed by a secondrefractoryperiod, which often lasts more than 100 s.
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After therefractoryperiod, the probability of spike generation returned to the free firing rate.
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The average lower boundary of this range was 1.53 ms, presumably close to the absoluterefractoryperiod, and was quite consistent among cells.
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Arefractoryperiodwas not explicitly introduced because the integrative nature of the model eliminates very short intervals and effectively acts as arefractoryperiod.
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Therefractoryperiodof the spiking mechanisms then combines to make this a relatively rare event.
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Direct, independent evidence for such arefractoryperiodcomes from measurements of the auto-covariance function later in the paper.
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Certain types of dual-task paradigms are particularly well suited to make distinctive predictions, particularly those involving a psychologicalrefractoryperiodparadigm.
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