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STIMULUS
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Irregular inflected form: stimuli
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
Synonyms:
input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("stimulus" is a kind of...):
information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stimulus"):
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 (act as a stimulant)
stimulate (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner)
stimulate (provide the needed stimulus for)
stimulate (stir feelings in)
Context examples:
Assessment of individual responses to age appropriate stimuli.
(Behavioral Assessment, NCI Thesaurus)
The actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment or surrounding world of stimuli.
(Behavior, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.
(Anxiety Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
Apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.
(Anxiety, NCI Thesaurus)
An in vitro test to assess the ability of peripheral blood mononuclear cells to proliferate in response to specific antigen stimulus.
(Antigen Proliferation Assay, NCI Thesaurus)
Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is triggered by a variety of stimuli, including cell surface receptors like FAS, mitochondrial response to stress, and cytotoxic T cells.
(Caspase Cascade Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Apoptotic cell death can be triggered by many different cellular stimuli, resulting in activation of apoptotic signaling pathways including caspases and mitochondria.
(Apoptotic DNA Fragmentation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This gene plays a regulatory role in transcription in response to developmental and environmental stimuli.
(ARNT2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator 2 protein, plays a role in the regulation of the transcriptional responses to both xenobiotic chemicals and environmental stimuli.
(ARNT2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
These cascades illustrate that ceramide can be a growth stimulus or proapoptotic signal.
(Ceramide Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
