hypoexcitable

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adjective

Less than normally excitable

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Meanings

adjectivehypoexcitable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableLess than normally excitable

    In the trigeminal motor nucleus of SOD1 mice for example, a subset of slow type MNs exhibits a hypoexcitable shift in rheobase compared to wild type MNs. In contrast, other slow type MNs undergo a hyperexcitable shift in rheobase similar to fast type MNs [42 ].

    2015 August 26, “Age-Related Changes in Pre- and Postsynaptic Partners of the Cholinergic C-Boutons in Wild-Type and SOD1 G93A Lumbar Motoneurons”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From hypo- + excitable.

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Chicago

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