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microstimulate

microstimulate verb: to stimulate individual nerve cells using a small electric current.

Verb

microstimulate (third-person singular simple present microstimulates, present participle microstimulating, simple past and past participle microstimulated)

  1. To stimulate individual nerve cells using a small electric current.
    • We trained rhesus monkeys to categorize disparity-defined 3D shapes and examined AIP's contribution to 3D-shape categorization by microstimulating in clusters of 3D-shape selective AIP neurons during task performance.2015 August 22, “Effects of Microstimulation in the Anterior Intraparietal Area during Three-Dimensional Shape Categorization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of microstimulate

third-person singular presentmicrostimulates
present participlemicrostimulating
past participlemicrostimulated
pastmicrostimulated

Origin of microstimulate

From micro- + stimulate.

Questions about microstimulate

What does microstimulate mean?
Microstimulate means to stimulate individual nerve cells using a small electric current.
What part of speech is microstimulate?
Microstimulate is a verb.
What is the past tense of microstimulate?
The past tense of microstimulate is microstimulated.

Words near microstimulate in the dictionary

  1. microsthene
  2. microsthenes
  3. microsthenic
  4. microstigmatid
  5. microstigmatids
  6. microstimulate
  7. microstimulated
  8. microstimulates
  9. microstimulating
  10. microstimulation
  11. microstimulations

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