| 单词 |
facilitation |
| 释义 |
facilitation|fəˌsɪlɪˈteɪʃən|
[f. as prec. + -ation.]
1. The action or process of facilitating or rendering easy; an instance of this.
1619Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent (1629) 769 For facilitation heereof, it [the Synod] doth renew some things decreed by the holy Canons. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 103 ⁋5 The use of their discoveries to the facilitation of commerce. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 102 This facilitation of conveyance would contribute much to the improvements in the northern parts of the island. 1862T. A. Trollope Lent. Journey ix. 134 Impediment to free locomotion was a very much more important consideration than facilitation of it.
2. A means of facilitating or helping forwards; help. Const. to, towards. Now rare.
1648W. Montagu Devout Ess. i. x. §6. 118 A generall habit of sincerity, which when it is referred to religious uses, proves a facilitation towards fidelity and perseverance in them. 1823Lamb Corr. (1870) 218 The impediments and facilitations to a sound belief are various.
3. Physiol. The increased excitability of a post-ganglionic neuron, resulting in an increased response to a physical stimulus, that is produced by conditioning of the ganglion by impluses due to other (similar or different) stimuli.
1895E. B. Titchener in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. VII. 80 Bahnung, facilitation. 1901J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. I. 367/2 Facilitation... The term has been given technical meaning as a translation of the German Bahnung (in neurology), which latter carries the idea of the preferential determination of a function..as to its pathway of discharge. 1906C. S. Sherrington Integr. Action Nerv. Syst. v. 176 He [sc. S. Exner] argues..that the seat of production of the facilitation lies in the spinal cord. 1943J. F. Fulton Physiol. Nerv. Syst. (ed. 2) xx. 379 A series of inadequate stimuli may become adequate merely through repetition, and thus additional neurons become recruited through local facilitation. 1961H. H. Jasper in D. E. Sheer Electr. Stimul. Brain xxxviii. 561/1 Critical areas of facilitation are in neuronal systems where there is convergence of impulses from many sources. 1968M. Monnier Funct. Nerv. Syst. I. iii. 112 A third, very prolonged facilitation effect begins 300–500 msec after the first conditioning impulse and lasts for several seconds. |
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