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spatial summation

spatial summation

a neural mechanism in which an impulse is propagated by two or more postsynaptic potentials occurring simultaneously at different synapses on the same neuron, when the discharge of a single synapse would not be sufficient to activate the neuron. Compare temporal summation.

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