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Definition of All-or-none law
1. Noun. (neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of All-or-none Law
Literary usage of All-or-none law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irritability: A Physiological Analysis of the General Effect of Stimuli in by Max Verworn (1913)
"Proof of the validity of the "all or none law" in the medullated nerve. Theory of
the process of the conductivity of excitation. ..."
2. Physical Chemistry of Vital Phenomena: For Students and Investigators in the by Jesse Francis McClendon (1917)
"The All-or-None Law If the action current (which we may assume is the ... This is
called the all-or-none law. A weak nerve impulse is explained as an ..."
3. Essentials of Physiology by Francis Arthur Bainbridge, James Acworth Menzies (1916)
"whatever the strength of the stimulus, is known as the "all or none law. ...
The "all or none law" simply means that the heart beat is maximal for the ..."
4. Mysticism, Freudianism and Scientific Psychology by Knight Dunlap (1920)
"From this "all or none\ principle is then inferred a totally different "all or
none" law, ..."
5. Psychology, from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist by John Broadus Watson (1919)
"If the all-or-none law is established the conception of the synapse will have to be
... The all-or-none law states that if a nerve fiber is stimulated it is ..."
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