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microstimulates

microstimulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of microstimulate.

Meaning of microstimulate

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

Questions about microstimulates

What is microstimulates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Microstimulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of microstimulate.

Words near microstimulates in the dictionary

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

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