stimulator
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Or a vagus nerve stimulator from Truvaga for $499.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
In this case, AP503 acts as a stimulator of GPR133.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 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
The stomach, with its fierce assimilative power, is a great stimulator of commercial activity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
After she experienced burnout, Lucy Lambert says such non-invasive vagus nerve stimulators helped her.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
Rogers' team had already developed a suite of bioresorbable electronic devices to serve as temporary implants, including dissolving pacemakers, nerve stimulators and implantable painkillers.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
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
There are also muscle stimulators to speed recovery after a workout and pneumatic pressure boots and sleeves to relieve pain and soreness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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 Augustus Jessopp
