CONDITIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conditioned mean? 

• CONDITIONED (adjective)
  The adjective CONDITIONED has 2 senses:

1. established by conditioning or learning

2. physically fit

  Familiarity information: CONDITIONED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDITIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Established by conditioning or learning

Synonyms:

conditioned; learned

Context example:

a conditioned response

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Antonym:

unconditioned (not established by conditioning or learning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Physically fit

Synonyms:

conditioned; in condition

Context example:

exercised daily to keep herself in condition

Similar:

fit (physically and mentally sound or healthy)

 Context examples 

The researchers first conditioned rats to fear a tone by pairing it with shocks.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

The model uses odorant conditioned stimuli temporally paired with unconditioned stimuli to produce conditioned responses to the odorant.

(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)

He is a broad-faced, bull-necked, young butcher, with rough red cheeks, an ill-conditioned mind, and an injurious tongue.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He only conditioned that the marriage should not take place before his return, which he was again looking eagerly forward to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Named after the author of the experiments (Dr. I. Pavlov) in which dogs were conditioned to salivate at the sound of a tone.

(Pavlovian Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)

During the study, the researchers intentionally damage the three main nuclei of the amygdala to determine which region is responsible for the acquisition of conditioned taste aversion (CTA).

(Researchers identify area of the amygdala involved in taste aversion, University of Granada)

This leads to a reduction of spontaneous locomotion and aggressiveness, suppression of conditioned response, antagonism of stereotyped behaviour and hyperactivity induced by amphetamines.

(Molindone Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

And while air-conditioned rooms can hold higher levels of carbon dioxide, which can have a negative impact on cognition, the students slept better in a cooler room.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

In the interview which followed between him and Mrs. Reed, I presume, from after-occurrences, that the apothecary ventured to recommend my being sent to school; and the recommendation was no doubt readily enough adopted; for as Abbot said, in discussing the subject with Bessie when both sat sewing in the nursery one night, after I was in bed, and, as they thought, asleep, Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill-conditioned child, who always looked as if she were watching everybody, and scheming plots underhand.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Oncostatin M, a glycoprotein with an approximate molecular weight of 28,000, was originally isolated from a conditioned medium of human leukemia cells that had been induced to differentiate into macrophage-like cells by treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.

(Oncostatin M, NCI Thesaurus)