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
Graded potentials can be depolarizing or hyperpolarizing and can summate to affect the probability of the neuron reaching threshold.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
These changes can lead to the neuron reaching threshold if the changes add together, or summate.
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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
It has of course been a mighty agent in evolution, for those who can summate all their energies in attack have survived.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various