Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very small electrode, often used to study electrical characteristics of living cells and tissues.
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- noun A very small, fine
electrode , most often used to study theelectrical behaviour of biologicalcells ortissues
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The microelectrode is mounted on a two-millimetre-long computer chip.
E-noses Edward Willett 2006
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The microelectrode is mounted on a two-millimetre-long computer chip.
Archive 2006-06-18 Edward Willett 2006
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Comparison of recordings from microelectrode arrays and single electrodes in the visual cortex.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Comparison of recordings from microelectrode arrays and single electrodes in the visual cortex.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The traditional thesis project, basically following the paradigm so successfully employed by Hubel and Wiesel, was to drop an extracellular microelectrode into the brain of an anesthetized animal and record the activity of individual neurons while providing sensory stimuli.
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Chemistrode n. Just as a microelectrode measures electrical signals, a chemistrode tracks chemical signals—hormones, for example—between living cells.
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Thus, the FBI must have implant a microelectrode in my brain to try to control me and get the information they want from me. etc. etc.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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Next up for U of Michigan: development of a microelectrode to deliver chemical agents that could alter nerve behavior.
Tiny Probes 2008
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Meanwhile in Europe, researchers from universities in Spain, France and Italy are creating an electronic nose that combines human engineering with nature, by coating a gold microelectrode with a layer of the olfactory receptor proteins found in the mammalian nose.
E-noses Edward Willett 2006
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Meanwhile in Europe, researchers from universities in Spain, France and Italy are creating an electronic nose that combines human engineering with nature, by coating a gold microelectrode with a layer of the olfactory receptor proteins found in the mammalian nose.
Archive 2006-06-18 Edward Willett 2006
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