Saltatory conduction is a term applied to the "jumping" movement of action potentials

A. across electrical synapses.
B. along the postsynaptic membrane from dendrite to axon hillock.
C. in two directions at the same time.
D. from one neuron to another.
E. along myelinated axons.


E. along myelinated axons.

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