stimulator
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Or a vagus nerve stimulator from Truvaga for $499.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
"We started with materials database and used a virtual growth stimulator and machine learning algorithms to generate a virtual material, then learn the relationship between its structure and physical properties," Zhang said.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
The stimulator sits on the lumbar region of the spinal cord, which sends messages to the leg muscles.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 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
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 Augustus Jessopp
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