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Science 28 October 1960:
Vol. 132. no. 3435, pp. 1248 - 1249
DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3435.1248
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Nomenclature of Devices Which Simulate Biological Functions

Willem A. van Bergeijk 1

1 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

The suffix -mime is proposed to create generic names for the general class of man-made devices which simulate biological functions. The suffix is used after the stem of the word that describes the organ or cell being simulated; for instance, artificial neurons are described as neuromimes.

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