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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

These changes can lead to the neuron reaching threshold if the changes add together, or summate.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Graded potentials can be depolarizing or hyperpolarizing and can summate to affect the probability of the neuron reaching threshold.

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They accumulate in time, finally they summate, and exercise their influence even at the beginning of the service.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

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