stimulator
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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
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
The team also hopes to explore how these decoded signals could be used to activate implanted stimulators in patients recovering from spinal cord injuries.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
"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
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
Spino tried ice packs, muscle stimulators, stretching exercises and heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2020
Such pigments are stimulators of corrosion, on account of acid impurities which they contain, or because of their effect in stimulating galvanic currents.
From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner
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