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automaticity

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automaticity /au·to·ma·ti·ci·ty/ (-mah-tis´ĭ-te)
1. the state or quality of being spontaneous, involuntary, or self-regulating.
2. the capacity of a cell to initiate an impulse without an external stimulus.

triggered automaticity  pacemaker activity occurring as a result of a propagated or stimulated action potential, such as an afterpotential, in cells or tissues not normally displaying spontaneous automaticity.

automaticity
[ô′tōmətis′itē]
a property of specialized excitable tissue that allows self-activation through spontaneous development of an action potential, as in the pacemaker cells of the heart.

automaticity
the ability of cells, after activity, to depolarize spontaneously, and then initiate a propagated, transmembranous, action potential; in healthy hearts only the sinus node cells reach threshold potential without an external stimulus.

automaticity
Cardiac pacing The inherent property of individual myocardial cells to depolarize spontaneously Neurology Automatism, see there

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