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stimulator

[stim-yuh-layt-er] / ˈstɪm jəˌleɪt ər /


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Or a vagus nerve stimulator from Truvaga for $499.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Ltd and are listed as inventors in issued patents and patent applications on the deep brain stimulator used in this work.

From Science Daily Feb. 8, 2026

With external devices, the electrical impulses need to travel through skin, tissue, muscle and fat so it's not as simple and direct as a stimulator in the body.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2025

The device, known as TENS, for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator, became a standard medical tool.

From New York Times Oct. 24, 2023

A weekly prayer-meeting, always attended by one of the professors, though officially rather than as a stimulator, was much in the manner and spirit of similar exercises at Andover.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

"The are some credible studies that suggest these external stimulators can potentially impact on brain activity," Prof McAllister-Williams explains.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2025

Existing devices are effective, but lack the necessary precision needed for some applications, such as cochlear implants or vagus nerve stimulators.

From Science Daily Apr. 23, 2024

In 2013 Mayberg, then at Emory, heard about prototype stimulators made by the medical device company Medtronic that could also record from the brain, and she applied to receive 10 of them.

From Scientific American Sep. 20, 2023

Those with pacemakers, defibrillators and vagus nerve stimulators may also not qualify, because the magnetic force of the treatment coil may dislodge these devices and cause severe pain or injury.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2022

They were the awakeners of a new intellectual life; not only the stimulators of an emotional pietism always prone to run into religious intoxication and extravagance.

From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus




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