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micro electrode
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An electrode of very fine caliber consisting usually of a fine wire or a glass tube of capillary diameter drawn to a fine point and filled with saline or a metal used in physiological experiments to stimulate or record action currents of extracellular or intracellular origin in the nervous system.
Term info
Label
micro electrode
alternative term
micro electrode measuring device
definition source
Jessica Turner, Dirk Derom
editor preferred term
micro electrode
example of usage
A micro-electrode recording device used to record extracellular action potentialsin monkey caudate nucleus
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000120
term editor
Helen Parkinson, Jessica Turner, Dirk Derom