summate
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Graded potentials can be depolarizing or hyperpolarizing and can summate to affect the probability of the neuron reaching threshold.
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These changes can lead to the neuron reaching threshold if the changes add together, or summate.
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Graded potentials summate at a specific location at the beginning of the axon to initiate the action potential, namely the initial segment.
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If, however, beginning at the second year, we summate the results for each year with those for all previous years, a steady rise from season to season is seen throughout.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
In the course of time all of these retained bitter impressions summate, and the qualities arising from them become more acute, become habitual, and at last you have a ready-made person ``marked for evil.''
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
