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Definition of Antidromic
1. Adjective. Conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal.
Definition of Antidromic
1. Adjective. (context: of a nerve impulse) flowing in the opposite direction from normal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antidromic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Antidromic
1. Performing a nerve conduction study in such a manner that the nerve impulse is being propagated in a direction opposite to that in which the nerve fibre ordinarily conducts. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antidromic
Literary usage of Antidromic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians by William Henry Howell (1913)
"Vasodilatation Due to antidromic Impulses. ... therefore, si stimulated they must
conduct the impulses in a direction opposite to normal—antidromic. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"Physiologists have, however, looked askance on this conception of antidromic
impulses, even as a working hypothesis. * Baylies, Journal of Physiology, 1901, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Iris and Rushes, when grown by branching of a common root-stock, become antidromic,
as if they were produced from seeds. This shows an unexpected ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"As to the antidromic passage of the current in non-medullated fibrils, that
occurred in the higher animals. All of the post-ganglionic fibrils were ..."
5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"Further researches on antidromic nerve-impulses. J. Physiol., Cambridge, 28,
1902, (276- 299). [4251 2220 5764]. ..."
6. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"In some organs it is peculiar, the vaso-dilator impulses being conveyed by the
ordinary sensory fibres in an " antidromic " direction. ..."
7. Cocaine: Pharmacology, Effects, and Treatment of Abuse edited by John Grabowski (1994)
"When the inter-pulse interval is short, the antidromic impulse collides with and
inactivates the oncoming impulse from the other stimulation site. ..."
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