Meaning of stim | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sensory stimulation.
   informal, uncountable
2. Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).
   slang
3. A whit or jot; the least amount.
   Ireland, rare
4. Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.
5. Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.
   countable

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Examples

““Electric therapy has been used in medicine for thousands of years,” says Ken Rusche, director of Wellington Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, a physical therapist and athletic trainer. “[…] Electrical stim is being used in the field of medicine for rehabilitation and strengthening after injuries. […]””

“Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us. […] At the beginning of March 2020, I discovered that many of the stims I regularly turned to were no longer accessible.”

“That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.”

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