How to pronounce“saltatory”in English

This node-hopping, by the way, has a name. It's called saltatory conduction. Conduction because it's electrical conduction and saltatory because saltatory means leaping.

Conduction because it's electrical conduction and saltatory because saltatory means leaping.

speeding up the travel time of action potential down a neuron: That's your saltatory conduction at work!

These little gaps are the delightfully named Nodes of Ranvier, and this kind of propagation is known as saltatory conduction, from the Latin word for “leaping.”