Stimuli

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Stimuli

in biology, various alterations in the external or internal environment of an organism that are capable, when acting on a biological system such as nervous, muscular, or glandular tissue, of altering the system’s original state, that is, of producing excitation. Stimuli may be physical, chemical, and physicochemical and adequate or inadequate. They affect specific nerve endings (receptors) and other cells of organs and tissues.

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No references found			He was simply the most tremendous response to stimuli I have ever known. Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context Farebrother--his effort after the cynical pretence that all ways of getting money are essentially the same, and that chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool's illusion--was but the symptom of a wavering resolve, a benumbed response to the old stimuli of enthusiasm. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context			stilt stilt root stilted stilted arch stilted vault Stilwell Stilwell Road Stilwell, Joseph Stilwell, Joseph W Stilwell, Joseph Warren Stilwell, Simpson Stimson anchor Stimson, Henry Stimson, Henry L Stimson, Henry Lewis Stimulant Stimulant, Nervous stimulated emission stimulated scattering stimulated-emission device stimulation deafness stimulation treatment stimulator Stimulator, Electronic stimulatory G protein Stimuli stimulon Stimulus stimulus filtering Stimulus Threshold Stine Stine, Charles sting Stinger Stinginess stinging cell stingray stingy stink stink bomb stinkbug stinkdamp stinker stinkstone Stinnes, Hugo stint Stip Stipa stipe Stipend Stipetic, Vladimir			stimulation/nurturance stimulation/nurturance stimulations stimulations stimulations stimulative stimulative stimulative stimulative music stimulator stimulator stimulator stimulator Stimulator Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Stimulator to Responder Stimulator, Electronic stimulator, interdental tip stimulators stimulators stimulators stimulators stimulatory stimulatory stimulatory Stimulatory Factor 1 stimulatory G protein Stimulatory gs G-protein Stimulatory gs G-protein Stimulatory Protein 1 Stimulatress Stimuli Stimuli Analog Refresh Table Stimulism Stimulon stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus Stimulus Bound Decremental Oscillatory Potentials stimulus control stimulus control stimulus control stimulus control stimulus control stimulus duration stimulus filtering stimulus generalisation stimulus generalization stimulus generalization stimulus generalization stimulus generalization Stimulus Hypothesis Option Response Stimulus Onset Asynchrony Stimulus Organism Behavior Consequence Stimulus Preceding Negativity stimulus response coupling stimulus response coupling stimulus response coupling stimulus response coupling stimulus sensitive myoclonus

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