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What does conduction mean?

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Noun
  1. (physics) The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
  2. The act of leading or guiding.
  3. (obsolete) The act of training up.
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This is achieved by the propagation of the chemotactic signal, in a manner rather similar to the conduction of a nerve impulse.
If aluminium causes direct neuronal death, why would this lead to slowing of conduction along the axons of the optic nerves?
The gradual prolongation of the AH interval is a feature that rarely occurs in accessory pathway conduction.
In other words, water vapor has a low heat capacity and poor thermal conduction.
The audiogram measures air conduction and bone conduction and presents them graphically across the hearing frequencies.
Its most important action is its ability to block the initiation or conduction of the nerve impulse following local application.

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