Medical Dictionary

2potential

noun

Medical Definition of POTENTIAL

1
:  something that can develop or become actual
2
a :  any of various functions from which the intensity or the velocity at any point in a field may be readily calculated; specifically :  electrical potential b :  potential difference

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