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STIMULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
Synonyms:
arousal; foreplay; stimulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stimulation" is a kind of...):
sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stimulation"):
caressing; cuddling; fondling; hugging; kissing; necking; petting; smooching; snuggling (affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs))
feel (manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of arousing an organism to action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stimulation" is a kind of...):
arousal; rousing (the act of arousing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stimulation"):
galvanisation; galvanization (stimulation that arouses a person to lively action)
Derivation:
stimulate (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
Synonyms:
input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("stimulation" is a kind of...):
information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stimulation"):
elicitation; evocation; induction (stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors)
kick (the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs))
turn-on (something causing excitement or stimulating interest)
negative stimulation; turnoff (something causing antagonism or loss of interest)
conditioned stimulus (the stimulus that is the occasion for a conditioned response)
reinforcement; reinforcer; reinforcing stimulus ((psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it)
cue; discriminative stimulus (a stimulus that provides information about what to do)
positive stimulus (a stimulus with desirable consequences)
negative stimulus (a stimulus with undesirable consequences)
Derivation:
stimulate (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("stimulation" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Domain category:
physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stimulation"):
activation (stimulation of activity in an organism or chemical)
galvanisation; galvanization (stimulation with a galvanic current)
Context examples:
The first test condition was a control in which there was no stimulation whatsoever.
(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)
NO plays an important role in tumor blood flow and stimulation of angiogenesis, tumor progression, survival, migration and invasiveness.
(NG-nitro-L-arginine, NCI Thesaurus)
NFATC, the Dorsal/Rel family cytosolic component of NFAT, is translocated to the nucleus following TCR-induced PKC stimulation and calmodulin-dependent calcineurin-mediated dephosphorylation.
(NF-AT, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
(ALTENS, NCI Dictionary)
Also called NES, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, and therapeutic (subthreshold) electrical stimulation.
(NMES, NCI Dictionary)
This allele, which encodes nuclear receptor coactivator 1 protein, plays a role in hormone-dependent transcription stimulation.
(NCOA1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called NES, NMES, and therapeutic (subthreshold) electrical stimulation.
(Neuromuscular electrical stimulation, NCI Dictionary)
Amiodarone may cause vasodilation by stimulation of the release of nitric oxide and cyclooxygenase-dependent relaxing endothelial factors.
(Amiodarone, NCI Thesaurus)
Due to constant stimulation to these receptors, amitriptyline may produce a downregulation of adrenergic and serotonin receptors, which may contribute to the antidepressant activity.
(Amitriptyline, NCI Thesaurus)
Additionally, andrographolide may exert its anti-cancer activity through the induction of cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 phase and the stimulation of lymphocyte proliferation and activation.
(Andrographolide, NCI Thesaurus)
