SINCE 1828
afterpotential
noun
af·ter·po·ten·tial
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Medical Definition of afterpotential
: the sequence of electrical events that follows the action potential of nerve activity and that usually takes the form of a negative followed by a positive potential with both being of much smaller amplitude than the action potential — compare prepotential
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