CIRCUITRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circuitry mean? 

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

1. electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRCUITRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

electronic equipment (equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor))

 Context examples 

Testing the device's over-current protection circuitry for its response to situations of overload, short circuit, or ground fault.

(Device Overcurrent Protection Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with an electrical activity that exceeded the specified threshold limit of the internal integrated circuitry.

(Electrical Overstress Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with a failure of the electrical circuitry or components of the device.

(Medical Device Electrical Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

The researchers believe that stimulation affects the spinal cord’s underlying circuitry, reawakening networks that have been silent since the injury.

(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)

Cells within an injured mouse eye can be coaxed into regenerating neurons and those new neurons appear to integrate themselves into the eye’s circuitry, new research shows.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

Rats, which are often used in psychology studies, have frontal lobes quite different to those of humans, making it less easy to translate studies of frontal lobe circuitry directly into the clinic.

(Marmoset study gives insights into loss of pleasure in depression, University of Cambridge)

Issue associated with a failure of the internal network paths or electrical circuitry (i.e. electrical components, circuit boards, wiring).

(Circuit Failure Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Either a program that controls a display for the user and that allows the user to interact with the system or a computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another.

(Interface Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

In this particular study, they developed and tested a complete system for performing chemical analysis techniques in situ, consisting of electronic circuitry and electrodes with chemical sensors to measure the compound in question, coupled to a mobile phone.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

To map the brain circuitry between the BNST and the hypothalamus, Dr. William Giardino and colleagues at Stanford University exposed mice to rewarding and aversive stimuli, and then visualized and manipulated the activity of neurons using fiber optic techniques.

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)