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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

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

They are minimally invasive devices that function both as a wireless stimulator and a structure around which nerves can rebuild.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

So was he, a moral invigorant, the stimulator to noble action, the centre of spiritual charm.

From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by William Elliot Griffis

After she experienced burnout, Lucy Lambert says such non-invasive vagus nerve stimulators helped her.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

In the future, this could allow for the individual control of multiple stimulators in different parts of the body, for example to treat tremor in the late stages of Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 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

Some pigments are stimulators of corrosion, because they contain water-soluble impurities that hasten the rusting, while others, like graphite, hasten it simply because, being good conductors, they stimulate surface electrolysis.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner




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