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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
depolarize .
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Examples
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This influx of positive receptor potential to become more positive, or 'depolarized'.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Ten seconds later, they depolarized to reveal the debris field silently expanding.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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He's depolarized the single most divisive issue of this decade, the Iraq war.
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Normally, after intercourse, and man has depolarized his masculine energy.
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For those whose compasses were not depolarized there seemed many odd things in these houses.
Tender is the Night 2003
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Once a channel has opened for the sodium cascade into the cell and then closed, that particular channel cannot reopen until the local region has completely depolarized.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Once a channel has opened for the sodium cascade into the cell and then closed, that particular channel cannot reopen until the local region has completely depolarized.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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She glanced up, her helmet shield depolarized, and wondered if she'd guessed it right.
Delta Search Shatner, William 1997
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Analogies of this kind suggest that sense organs and nerve cells send out impulses because some part of their surface has become depolarized.
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If the regions from which the discharge originates remain partly or wholly depolarized as long as they are excited, it should be possible to detect potential changes of relatively long duration in sense organs and in the motor nerve centres.
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