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stimulus 1. any drug, agent, electrical impulse, or other factor able to cause a response in an organism 2. an object or event that is apprehended by the senses 3. Med a former name for stimulant stimulus [′stim·yə·ləs] (control systems) A signal that affects the controlled variable in a control system. (physiology) An agent that produces a temporary change in physiological activity in an organism or in any of its parts. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| So I forced myself from my lethargy of despair and grief; and this thought, the sweetest thought of all my life, may or may not have been my unrealized stimulus ere now; it was in very deed my most conscious and perpetual spur henceforth until the end. The consummating death I show unto you, which becometh a stimulus and promise to the living. Not a few openly avowed themselves converted to antagonism; the rest needed only a slight stimulus to make a similar avowal. |
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