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stimulus
  1. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system.
  2. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
  3. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
  4. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Anything that induces a person to take action.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “A common language that will allow better communication of ideas could serve as a stimulus to improve the quality of teaching and learning.”
      “They are conditioned to respond to an auditory stimulus by, for example, dropping a block when a sound is heard through earphones.”
      “The external stimulus provides the impetus to move forth from the inspirational quarter of the lunar cycle into the action quarter.”
stimulation
  1. A pushing or goading toward action.
  2. An activity causing excitement or pleasure.
  3. (biology) Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Of course, once Joe cottoned to this idea of visual stimulation, he completely threw himself into it.”
      “The pre-retirees who are working full time in stimulating jobs are deriving most of their current mental stimulation from the work they do.”
      “This would explain why alternating stimulation often initially produces powerful abreactions in traumatized patients.”
stimulism
  1. (medicine) The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.
  2. (medicine) The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.
stimulant
  1. A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.
  2. Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “As a stimulant for the economy, lower interest rates would be more effective than the fiscal policy pursued to date.”
      “It is also a central nervous system stimulant, which can aid in activities that require concentration.”
      “Probably they would have rested better had it not been for the shameful conduct of a person in an officer's uniform who, having purloined a bottle of stimulant, made himself somewhat noisy.”
stimulon
  1. (genetics) A system of genes that are regulated by the same stimulus
stimulative
  1. That which stimulates; a stimulant.
stimulator
  1. A person, device or substance that stimulates.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Jan Hendrik Oort was the stimulator of, and the driving force behind, radio-astronomy in the Netherlands after World War II.”
      “The stimulator provides impulses along the dorsal column spinal cord which in turn sets up paraesthesia from nerve pathways.”
      “However, the purpose in inserting the stimulator is to dampen or reduce continuous neuropathic pain which is pain derived from nerve structures.”
stimulativeness
  1. The state or quality of being stimulative.
stimulatress
  1. (rare) A woman who stimulates.
stimulability
  1. The condition of being stimulable
stimulations
  1. plural of stimulation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “During sleep, the nerves discharge stimulations they accumulated during the day.”
      “No physical evidence of any other movement than knee extension was observed during the stimulations.”
      “The same relation holds true, even in the case of the galvanometric deflections due to various stimulations.”
stimulatives
  1. plural of stimulative
stimulators
  1. plural of stimulator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Spinal cord stimulators also are used in the treatment of intractable pain.”
      “The stimulators work either by blocking sympathetic nerve fiber transmission or by releasing endogenous opioids with stimulation.”
      “Natural remedies take one of two forms, either immune stimulators or symptom relievers.”
stimuli
  1. plural form of stimulus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These mediators lower the nociceptor threshold, making the receptors more responsive to painful stimuli.”
      “All are viewed dispassionately, the heart as a pump, the brain as a network of neural tissues, the eye as a receptor of visual stimuli.”
      “Likewise, neuroticism may be linked not with stronger reactions to negative stimuli, but with weaker reactions to positive stimuli.”
stimulants
  1. plural of stimulant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These drugs include corticosteroids, anticonvulsants, antidepressants, local anesthetics, and stimulants.”
      “This is of particular concern with stimulants and anti-inflammatory steroids.”
      “In the brain, stimulants stunt the growth of spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens and pyramidal cells in the parietal cortex.”
stimulons
  1. plural of stimulon
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