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Descriptor English: Electric Stimulation
Descriptor Spanish: Estimulación Eléctrica
Descriptor estimulación eléctrica
Scope note: Utilización de potenciales eléctricos o corrientes eléctricas para producir respuestas biológicas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Estimulação Elétrica
Descriptor French: Stimulation électrique
Entry term(s): Electric Stimulations
Electrical Stimulation
Electrical Stimulations
Stimulation, Electric
Stimulation, Electrical
Stimulations, Electric
Stimulations, Electrical
Tree number(s): E05.723.402
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004558
Scope note: Use of electric potential or currents to elicit biological responses.
Annotation: NIM; used therapeutically = ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
IS instrumentation
MT methods
Public MeSH Note: 65
History Note: 65(64)
Related: Cardiac Pacing, Artificial MeSH
Chronaxy MeSH
Deep Brain Stimulation MeSH
Electric Countershock MeSH
Electroshock MeSH
DeCS ID: 4630
Unique ID: D004558
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Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2004/07/07
Electric Stimulation - Preferred
Concept UI M0007169
Scope note Use of electric potential or currents to elicit biological responses.
Preferred term Electric Stimulation
Entry term(s) Electric Stimulations
Electrical Stimulation
Electrical Stimulations
Stimulation, Electric
Stimulation, Electrical
Stimulations, Electric
Stimulations, Electrical



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