Term: nerve impulse: the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
Candidate hypernym: electrical discharge: a discharge of electricity → 1
Candidate hypernym: make-believe: the enactment of a pretense → 0
Candidate hypernym: recount: an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election → 0
Candidate hypernym: germ pore: a pore in the outer wall of a spore or pollen grain through which the germ tube or pollen tube makes its exit on germination → 0
Candidate hypernym: cyano group: the monovalent group -CN in a chemical compound → 0
Candidate hypernym: dipsomania: an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess → 0
Candidate hypernym: ceiling: the overhead upper surface of a covered space → 0
Candidate hypernym: octopod: a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell → 0
Candidate hypernym: pet: a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement → 0
Candidate hypernym: pauli exclusion principle: no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers → 0
Candidate hypernym: palatine: either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits → 0