what does stimulated mean
Stimulation is the encouragement of development or the cause of activity generally. For example, The press provides stimulation of political discourse. An interesting or fun activity can be described as stimulating, regardless of its physical effects on senses. Stimulate means to act as a stimulus to; stimulus means something that rouses the recipient to activity; stimuli is the plural of stimulus. A particular use of the term is physiological stimulation, which refers to sensory excitation, the action of various agents or forms of energy on receptors that generate impulses that travel through nerves to the brain (afferents).