ELICITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elicitation mean? 

• ELICITATION (noun)
  The noun ELICITATION has 1 sense:

1. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors

  Familiarity information: ELICITATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELICITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

elicitation; evocation; induction

Context example:

the elicitation of his testimony was not easy

Hypernyms ("elicitation" is a kind of...):

input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus (any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action)

Derivation:

elicit (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

 Context examples 

Vaccination with OSM may result in the production of antibodies as well as elicitation of a cytotoxic T- lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells expressing sTn, thereby results in decreased tumor cell growth.

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