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period
(redirected from refractory period)

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period noun age, bout, continuance, course, duration, eon, epoch, era, hitch, interval, juncture, length of time, limited time, point, season, shift, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tenure, term, time, time interval, time stretch, tour, while
Associated concepts: period of redemption
See also: age, annum, cycle, date, duration, expiration, life, moratorium, tenure, term, time


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This period, called the duration of carriage, is followed by a refractory period of duration 1/[theta], during which these persons cannot be colonized again.
It is not clear whether the built-in, inhibitory mechanisms underlying the postejaculatory refractory period are made use of in these other inhibitory situations.
It is theoretically possible, therefore, that even when one assumes an absolute refractory period of 4 milliseconds, each burst elicited 2 to 3 action potentials.
 
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