Neural conduction

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Broader Terms

neurophysiology

Narrower Terms

antidromic impulse

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• The measurement of neural conduction is used to assess the degree of neural involvement in many difficulties involving the nerves of the upper extremity.
• All neural conduction is electrochemical.
• The reason that the myelin sheath speeds up neural conduction is that the action potentials literally jump from one node of Ranvier to the next.
• Median neural conduction is also found to be normal.
• Neural conduction is diminished by 75% when tissue is cooled below 20C and complete neural blockage occurs at about 9OC.

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