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GSR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does GSR mean? 

GSR (noun)
  The noun GSR has 1 sense:

1. a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the bodyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GSR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

electrical skin response; electrodermal response; Fere phenomenon; galvanic skin response; GSR; psychogalvanic response; Tarchanoff phenomenon

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

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

Holonyms ("GSR" is a part of...):

lie detector (a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying)


 Context examples 


Glutathione peroxidase (GPx), for example, removes peroxides using glutathione as a reducing agent, and glutathione reductase (GSR) regenerates reduced glutathione.

(Free Radical Induced Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)



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