• An orthodromic impulse runs along an axon in its anterograde direction, away from the soma. In the heart, orthodromic may also refer to an impulse going...
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    Great-circle navigation or orthodromic navigation (related to orthodromic course; from Ancient Greek ορθός (orthós) 'right angle', and δρόμος (drómos) 'path')...
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    The great-circle distance, orthodromic distance, or spherical distance is the distance along a great circle. It is the shortest distance between two points...
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  • and thus the continuation of the orthodromic impulse towards innervated muscle fibers. This successive orthodromic stimulus then evokes a smaller population...
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  • antidromic impulse in an axon refers to conduction opposite of the normal (orthodromic) direction. That is, it refers to conduction along the axon away from...
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    all meridians of longitude and must cross the Equator.... The shortest orthodromic track of the vessel must be at least 21,600 nautical miles". Officially...
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    accessory pathway, the bundle of Kent crossing the AV valvular ring. In orthodromic AVRT, atrial impulses are conducted down through the AV node and retrogradely...
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    Marine navigation is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art...
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    requires an accessory pathway for its maintenance. AVRT may involve orthodromic conduction (where the impulse travels down the AV node to the ventricles...
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    medication may be used. WPW pattern with hemodynamically stability and orthodromic AVRT leading to a regular narrow complex tachycardia may be managed similarly...
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    Comparison of orthodromic course (white) compared with a loxodromic course (red) in a map using Mercator projection....
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    differentiate between atrial flutter, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia and orthodromic atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia. It can also evaluate the risk...
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  • Earth's surface whose initial orthodromic course with respect to a fixed point is constant. That is, if the initial orthodromic course Z from the starting...
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    sites from the rhumb line (although it would be more correct to speak of orthodromic line) that would connect them varies between 14-42 km. It is therefore...
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    di Chardonnet in the Cottian Alps, in France, at 6° 32′ 52″ east. The orthodromic distance N–S is 1,269 km. The Italian Republic occupies 93% of the Italian...
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    arrhythmias, particularly atrial flutter, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia and orthodromic atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia. It can also evaluate the risk...
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    "The WSSR Rule for Around the World - rule 26a - calls for a minimum orthodromic track distance of the vessel of at least 21,600 nautical miles (the distance...
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    is safely out of range and cannot restimulate that part. In the usual orthodromic conduction, the action potential propagates from the axon hillock towards...
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    (8,942 nmi; 10,291 mi) for a 15,353 kilometres (8,290 nmi; 9,540 mi) orthodromic distance. It burned 101.4 t (224,000 lb) of fuel to cover the route in...
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    timepiece, it will be possible to guide a vessel along the shortest or orthodromic path, to instantly read the latitude and longitude, the hour, the distance...
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    navigation Majorcan cartographic school Marine sandglass Octant projection Orthodromic navigation Leo Bagrow (2010). History of Cartography. Transaction Publishers...
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    action potentials will propagate along the axon towards the muscle (orthodromic propagation) and concurrently, as the other "wave" of action potentials...
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    stimulation of fimbria stimulates CA3 Pyramidal cells antidromically and orthodromically, but it has no impact on dentate granule cells. Each CA1 Pyramidal...
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    generated in the axon and travels towards the soma), which would prevent orthodromic spikes (i.e. an action potential traveling from the cell's soma toward...
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  • Faber, Donald S.; Funch, Paul G. (May 1980). "Differential properties of orthodromic and antidromic impulse propagation across the Mauthner cell initial segment"...
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  • and more broadly of any elevated terrain. orthodrome See great circle. orthodromic distance See great-circle distance. orthophotograph An aerial photograph...
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  • the action potential antidromically to axon branch points and then orthodromically to adjacent sudomotor nerves and glands (indirect sweat response)....
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  • unassisted solo circumnavigation, but her course did not meet the minimum orthodromic distance requirement of 21,600 nautical miles set by the WSSRC. Jesse...
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    postganglionic sympathetic sudomotor neuron, the impulse branches and travels orthodromically, or away from the soma. Finally, as this impulse reaches other sweat...
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    the Nobel Prize, he introduces an "oriented chance" (called "evolving orthodromic") and considers (in "Chance, necessity and logic of living", La Nouvelle...
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