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Webster 1913 Edition
Unipolar
Uˊni-po′lar
,Adj.
[
Uni-
+ polar
.] 1.
(Physics)
Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.
2.
(Anat.)
Having but one pole or process; – applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; – opposed to multipolar.
Unipolar induction
(Elec.)
, induction, as in a conducting circuit, by only one pole of a magnet.
– Unipolar stimulation
(Physiol.)
, the simulation sometimes produced when one electrode of an induction apparatus is applied to a nerve; – called also
unipolar induction action
. Du Bois-Reymond.
Definition 2024
unipolar
unipolar
English
Adjective
unipolar (not comparable)
- Having a single pole.
- (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
- 2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, ISBN 0195135792, page 250:
- Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder
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having a single pole
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