manipulandum

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin.

Noun[edit]

manipulandum (plural manipulanda or manipulandums)

  1. (sciences) Something that is manipulated physically, especially when testing motor skills
    • 1999 March 12, Adam F. Carpenter et al., “Motor Cortical Encoding of Serial Order in a Context-Recall Task”, in Science‎[1], volume 283, number 5408, →DOI, pages 1752–1757:
      The manipulandum was a vertical rigid metal rod, with a disc attached to the top, which was placed in front of the animal in the midsagittal plane and which the animal grasped with the hand pronated.
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