The electrical potential of a neuron or other excitable cell relative to its surroundings when not stimulated or involved in passage of an impulse.
〔生理〕静息电位，静态电位，休止电位
Example sentencesExamples
Oocytes with resting potentials more positive than - 30 mV were discarded.
They have large stable resting potentials and can produce large overshooting action potentials.
Both parameters were measured from somata that were isolated and kept in culture where they maintained their resting potential values similar to those of neurons in the ganglion.
The resting potential changes when the cell is stimulated.
In these conditions the neurons survived for more than a week and kept their resting potentials between - 50 and - 55 mV.
Definition of resting potential in US English:
resting potential
noun
Physiology
The electrical potential of a neuron or other excitable cell relative to its surroundings when not stimulated or involved in passage of an impulse.
〔生理〕静息电位，静态电位，休止电位
Example sentencesExamples
Oocytes with resting potentials more positive than - 30 mV were discarded.
The resting potential changes when the cell is stimulated.
Both parameters were measured from somata that were isolated and kept in culture where they maintained their resting potential values similar to those of neurons in the ganglion.
In these conditions the neurons survived for more than a week and kept their resting potentials between - 50 and - 55 mV.
They have large stable resting potentials and can produce large overshooting action potentials.