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manipulandum en · NOUN

Etymology

From manipulate + Latin -andum.

Meanings

1. Something that is manipulated physically, especially when testing motor skills
   • The manipulandum was a vertical rigid metal rod, with a disc attached to the top, which was placed in front of the animal in the midsagittal plane and which the animal grasped with the hand pronated. 1999 March 12, Adam F. Carpenter et al., “Motor Cortical Encoding of Serial Order in a Context-Recall Task”, in Science, volume 283, number 5408, →DOI, pages 1752–1757:

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