The Home Delivered Meals Program provides nutritionally-balanced, hot meals during the day to homebound persons. Some people also receive cold, bagged meals so that they will have food available in the evening as well. Eligibility.
Potential, Spike. a large and sudden change in electrical potential that accompanies excitation in nerve and muscle cells and fibers. In physiology, the term âspike potentialâ is often used as a synonym for action potential. In clinical electroencephalography spike potential refers to gross potentials reaching 10 milliseconds in duration that are outwardly similar to the action potential of a nerve.
Noun. 1. action potential-the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted. nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulse-the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.