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    REFRACTORY PERIOD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a responseplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("refractory period" is a kind of...):

    biological time (the time of various biological processes)

    Domain category:

    neurology (the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system)

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