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Definition of Facilitation

1. Noun. The condition of being made easy (or easier). "Social facilitation is an adaptive condition"

2. Noun. (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential.

3. Noun. Act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something.

Definition of Facilitation

1. n. The act of facilitating or making easy.

Definition of Facilitation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Facilitation

1. Greater effectiveness of synaptic transmission by successive presynaptic impulses, usually due to increased transmitter release. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facilitation

facies vesicalis uteri facies vestibularis dentis facies visceralis hepatis facies visceralis splenis facile facilely facileness facilenesses facilitate facilitated

facilitated diffusion facilitated transport facilitates facilitating facilitation (current term) facilitation (current term) facilitations facilitative facilitator facilitators

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