HETEROLOGOUS STIMULUS


Meaning of HETEROLOGOUS STIMULUS in English

noun

: a stimulus capable of affecting any available sensory end organ and thought to be further capable of being interpreted centrally as a stimulus of the kind to which the end organ is adapted to respond

a blow on the eye acts as a heterologous stimulus seen as a flash of light

— compare homologous stimulus

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