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Definition of Chronaxie
1. Noun. The minimum time over which an electric current must be applied in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chronaxie
1. the time required to excite a nerve cell electrically [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chronaxie
1. A measurement of excitability of nervous or muscular tissue; the shortest duration of an effective electrical stimulus having a strength equal to twice the minimum strength required for excitation. Synonym: chronaxia, chronaxis, chronaxy. Origin: G. Chronos, time, + axia, value (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Chronaxie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgical and mechanical treatment of peripheral nerves by Byron Stookey, Gotthelf Carl Huber (1922)
"The chronaxie in normal muscle is about one-thousandth second while that of a
paralyzed muscle one- hundredth second or more. In this manner the current may ..."
2. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Thus the chronaxie, which is the reciprocal of the rate, is 0-0003 second in the
case of the motor nerve to the gastrocnemius, whose fibres have a diameter ..."
3. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1921)
"... the most notable correlation is that it is brief in tissues with rapid rate
of response (ie brief chronaxie), such as voluntary muscle and nerve, ..."
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