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All-or-none Law

Definition: All-or-none Law

All-or-none Law

Noun

1. (neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definitions: All-or-none Law

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	The weakest stimulus capable of producing a response in cardiac muscle, fibers of striated muscle, or nerve fibers, produces a maximal response, i. e. if there is any response at all, it is maximum under the existing conditions. Source: European Union. (references)
	Any stimulus, however feeble, capable of exciting a cardiac contraction will produce as powerful a contraction as the strongest stimulus, the principle being that "minimal stimuli cause maximal contraction" [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: All-or-none Law

Language		Translations for "all-or-none law"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		loi du tout ou rien (all-or-nothing relation). (various references)

German		ANG (all-or-nothing relation, clung to, Netherlands Antillean guilder, not elsewhere identified, not elsewhere specified, not otherwise specified), Alles-oder-Nichts-Gesetz (all-or-nothing relation). (various references)

Italian		risposta del tipo tutto o niente (all-or-none response, all-or-nothing law), legge del tutto o nulla (all-or-none response, all-or-nothing law). (various references)

Pig Latin		all-or-noneay awlay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: All-or-none Law

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-l-l-n-n-o-o-r-w"
	-4 letters: wallaroo.
	-5 letters: woollen.
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Alternative Orthography: All-or-none Law

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 2D 6F 72 2D 6E 6F 6E 65 4C 61 77

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101111 01110010 00101101 01101110 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01001100 01100001 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#111 &#114 &#45 &#110 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#32 &#76 &#97 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 002D 006F 0072 002D 006E 006F 006E 0065 004C 0061 0077

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35787815818415808180712466789

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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