- Wedensky facilitation
- facilitation across a block; when there is a complete block to nerve conduction the threshold of the nerve below the block to electric stimulation is lowered.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Wedensky facilitation
Look at other dictionaries:
Wedensky facilitation inhibition phenomenon — We·den·sky facilitation, inhibition, phenomenon (və denґske) [Nikolai Yevgenyevich Wedensky, Russian neurologist, 1852–1922] see under facilitation, inhibition, and phenomenon … Medical dictionary
facilitation — Enhancement or reinforcement of a reflex or other nervous activity by the arrival at the reflex center of other excitatory impulses. [L. facilitas, fr. facilis, easy] Wedensky f. the arrival of an impulse at a blocked zone, enhancing the … Medical dictionary
Wedensky, Vvedenskii — Nikolai I., Russian neurophysiologist, 1852–1922. See W. effect, W. facilitation, W. inhibition … Medical dictionary
INHIBITION — L’évolution du concept d’inhibition nerveuse est assez remarquable; presque dès l’origine, il fut appliqué à l’interprétation de phénomènes de complexités très différentes, relevant d’échelles d’appréhension du fonctionnement nerveux les plus… … Encyclopédie Universelle
