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manipulandum

manipulandum noun: something that is manipulated physically, especially when testing motor skills.

Noun

manipulandum (plural manipulanda or manipulandums)

  1. Something that is manipulated physically, especially when testing motor skills
    • The manipulandum was a vertical rigid metal rod, with a disc attached to the top, which was placed in front of the animal in the midsagittal plane and which the animal grasped with the hand pronated.1999 March 12, Adam F. Carpenter et al., “Motor Cortical Encoding of Serial Order in a Context-Recall Task”, in Science, volume 283, number 5408, →DOI, pages 1752–1757

Forms of manipulandum

pluralmanipulanda
pluralmanipulandums

Origin of manipulandum

From manipulate + Latin -andum.

Questions about manipulandum

What does manipulandum mean?
Manipulandum means something that is manipulated physically, especially when testing motor skills.
What part of speech is manipulandum?
Manipulandum is a noun.
What is the plural of manipulandum?
The plural of manipulandum is manipulanda.

Words near manipulandum in the dictionary

  1. manipulabilities
  2. manipulability
  3. manipulable
  4. manipulably
  5. manipulanda
  6. manipulandum
  7. manipulandums
  8. manipular
  9. manipulars
  10. manipulatable
  11. manipulate

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