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Is there a proper use of "stimuluses"?

Asked by blaze626 (151points) July 7th, 2011

Typically, one would use the plural form of the word stimulus as in ”...responding to stimuli”. Could there be a (scientific or technical writing) context in which one could properly replace “stimuli” with “stimuluses”?

Consider the case where you need to describe one response to a series of individual stimuluses (?) versus the case where one might describe one response to a suite of stimuli.

Maybe there is another word completely that might describe this without the drawn out explanation and make this paper more succinct?

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