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Definition of Impulses

1. impulse [v] - See also: impulse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impulses

Literary usage of Impulses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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 (1886)
"It is clear, therefore, that these rapidly succeeding impulses have not been transmitted unaltered through the motor-nerve cells, but have become summated ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"It is clear, therefore, that these rapidly succeeding impulses have not been transmitted unaltered through the motor-nerve cells, but have become summated ..."

3. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Structure of cerebrum as indicating way in which impulses are organized. No clearer evidence of the function of the cerebrum can be found than that which is ..."

4. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"Ludwig Pflücker,8 upon Schenck's suggestion, employed the tripolar method to block the cranial impulses in the vagus. Fröhlich 7 employed it for blocking ..."

5. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1905)
"In the former case the resulting displacements of the points of application of the impulses X, Y, Z are given, the impulses being unknown. ..."

6. Fundamentals of Child Study: A Discussion of Instincts and Other Factors in by Edwin Asbury Kirkpatrick (1917)
"The tendency to certain forms of play and to adornment is also increased by the sexual impulses. Darwin and others hold that there is a close relation ..."

7. Psychology; an Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human by James Rowland Angell (1908)
"Classification of impulses.—impulses have been classified in various ways. Titchener, for instance, groups them as impulses toward, and impulses away from, ..."

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