An agent or action that elicits a physiologic activity or response within the oral tissues.<\/p>\n
That which can elicit or evoke action (response) in a muscle, nerve, gland or other excitable issue, or cause an augmenting action upon any function or metabolic process.<\/p>\n
Anything in the environment that an organism can detect and respond to.<\/p>\n
Something which has an effect on a person or a part of the body and makes them react.<\/p>\n
Stimuli, anything that causes a reaction or response (e.g., an odor activating olfactory receptor in the nasal cavity).<\/p>\n
An action or agent that causes or changes an activity in an organ or other part of the body. The body responds to stimuli, such as temperature, touch, and pain.<\/p>\n
Any agent that provokes a response, or particular form of activity, in a cell, tissue, or other structure, which is said to be sensitive to that stimulus.<\/p>\n
Anything that induces an immediate reaction in either the whole body or specific body components.<\/p>\n
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An agent or action that elicits a physiologic activity or response within the oral tissues. That which can elicit or evoke action (response) in a muscle, nerve, gland or other excitable issue, or cause an augmenting action upon any function or metabolic process. Anything in the environment that an organism can detect and respond to. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"yoast_head":"\n