Definition of Facilitatory

1. Adjective. Inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity.

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Derivative terms: Facilitate

Definition of Facilitatory

1. Adjective. That serves to facilitate ¹

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Definition of Facilitatory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facilitatory

facileness
facilenesses
faciliatory
facilitate
facilitated
facilitated diffusion
facilitated transport
facilitates
facilitating
facilitation
facilitations
facilitative
facilitator
facilitator neuron
facilitators
facilitatory (current term)
facilities
facility
facility regulation and control
facing pages
facing points
facingly
facings
facinorous
facio-
faciolingual
facioplasty

Literary usage of Facilitatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"... lead to the activation of facilitatory presynaptic nicotine cholinoceptors on cholinergic nerves and an enhancement of evoked (3H)acetylcholine release. ..."

2. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1922)
"Most of the cases that have been cited in the literature tend to prove that synkinesis is facilitatory; and it is conceivable why that should be so in a ..."

3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"The medial preoptic area (MPOA) and ventro- medial hypothalamus (VMH) apparently exert a facilitatory effect on sexual behavior. ..."

4. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the Second Nimh Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"... that extends the short-term cytoplasmic process for synaptic facilitation into the genomic changes that characterize the long-term facilitatory process, ..."

5. Vocational Education and Training in Southern Africa: A Comparative Study by Salim Akoojee, Simon A. McGrath, Anthony Gewer (2005)
"Part of the capacity development challenge lies in equipping and orienting officials for new, more facilitatory, roles, if these are deemed desirable. ..."

6. Researching Mathematics Education in South Africa: Perspectives, Practices by Renuka Vithal, Jill Adler, Christine Keitel (2005)
"The above can be seen as congruent with the facilitatory role in collaborative approaches. Other mathematics educators (eg Lampert 2001; Sfard 2001; ..."

7. Democracy and Delivery: Urban Policy in South Africa by Udesh Pillay, Richard Tomlinson, Jacques Du Toit (2007)
"... state-centred housing delivery programme, from a position in which the state played a facilitatory role and delivery was achieved by a range of players. ..."

8. Local Authority?: How to Develop Leadership for Better Public Services by Danny Chesterman, Matthew Horne (2002)
"This is a facilitatory role, not a representational one, and is well evidenced in the following example submitted by chief executive John Yates: When the ..."

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