verb
- past tense and past participle of repolarize; to restore electrical polarity or polarization to something
Usage: technical; biology; physics
Examples
- The cardiac muscle cells repolarized after the electrical impulse passed through.
- The membrane potential repolarized to its resting state.
- Scientists observed how quickly the neurons repolarized following stimulation.
- The battery terminals were repolarized to restore proper function.
- After the shock, the heart muscle repolarized normally.
- The cell membrane repolarized within milliseconds of depolarization.