Define nerve conduction velocity

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Watch this video over Action Potentials:

- Summarize in a couple sentences what you learned and found interesting, and anything you found confusing

Questions the threshold value is -55mV)

1. Define nerve conduction velocity.

2. What was the threshold value? Define Threshold in terms of an action potential.

3. When a maximal response of the nerve is reached, what does this mean in terms of physiology?

4. Does the action potential in a single axon increase in amplitude when the stimulus amplitude is increased?

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