inflector

An affix that inflects the base form of a word.

These modulants are inflectors of roots to allow them to serve as descriptors, and modulation is desirable because the root form may be retrieved without the modulant when making a generic search.

The inflectors of English are relatively few in number, so each has quite a high frequency of occurrence.

A device for bending a particle beam.

In order to prevent the beams striking the inflectors on subsequent turns, each ring would contain a set of foils, thick at the outer radius but thinning to zero about one inch inside the inflector radius.

The introduction of electrons into the chamber is accomplished by means of an iron antimagnetic channel with subsequent bending by electrically pulsed inflectors.

A muscle that contracts to cause a part of the body to curve inwards.

The two last, the intertransversarii and quadrati lumborum, are here enumerated with the dorsal inflectors, because the are dorsad of the centre of motion, and accordingly relaxed in the dead body, when the trunk is inflected in the dorsal direction.

The scateni medii appear to act exclusively as lateral inflectors.

Something that inflects or modulates.

Since, in general, bodies that are good radiators are poor inflectors and good absorbers, and vice versa.,

And so, while it wouldn't be quite proper to call estrogen a neurotransmitter, it would be proper to call it and the neurotransmitters members of a large chemical family of neuromodulators—brain inflectors.