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long-term potentiation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English

Syllables
long-ter-m po-ten-ti-a-tion
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A long-lasting (hours in vitro, weeks to months in vivo) increase, typically in amplitude, of the response of a postsynaptic neuron to a particular pattern of stimuli from a presynaptic neuron.

Uncountable

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Usage

Inflected Forms

long term potentiation (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

short-term potentiation

Synonyms

LTP

Questions

What does long-term potentiation mean?
A long-lasting (hours in vitro, weeks to months in vivo) increase, typically in amplitude, of the response of a postsynaptic neuron to a particular pattern of stimuli from a presynaptic neuron.

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