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Definition of Irritative
1. Adjective. (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite. "An irritative agent"
Definition of Irritative
1. a. Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent.
Definition of Irritative
1. Adjective. Serving to excite or irritate. ¹
2. Adjective. Accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Irritative
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Irritative
1. Causing irritation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irritative
Literary usage of Irritative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière by Jean Martin Charcot (1879)
"Contusion and ligation of nerves are irritative lesions. ... 6, irritative lesions
of the large nerve-cells of the anterior cornua with or without ..."
2. Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin (1801)
"... but generally an irritative fever precedes this topical inflammation, which
occurs during the hot fit of it; and then the irritative fever is changed ..."
3. Lectures on the theory and practice of surgery by John Abernethy (1830)
"Of irritative Inflammation. § 1. IN speaking of the different kinds of fever
induced by the different states of the wound in a case of compound fracture, ..."
4. The Clinical Journal (1898)
"skin, and with atrophy; and secondly, that the irritative lesion produced crops
of vesicles as long as the irritation continued, together with a wrinkled ..."
5. An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science: For the by John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith (1861)
"irritative FEVER. By this is meant a simple fever arising from any irritating
cause, but unattended with local inflammation. Usually it« duration is very ..."
6. The Localisation of cerebral disease: Being the Gulstonian Lectures of the by David Ferrier (1879)
"irritative Lesions of the Motor Area.—Hitherto I have directed your attention
more particularly to destructive lesions of the motor area indicated by ..."
7. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière by Jean Martin Charcot (1879)
"Contusion and ligation of nerves are irritative lesions. ... 6, irritative lesions
of the large nerve-cells of the anterior cornua with or without ..."
8. Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin (1801)
"... but generally an irritative fever precedes this topical inflammation, which
occurs during the hot fit of it; and then the irritative fever is changed ..."
9. Lectures on the theory and practice of surgery by John Abernethy (1830)
"Of irritative Inflammation. § 1. IN speaking of the different kinds of fever
induced by the different states of the wound in a case of compound fracture, ..."
10. The Clinical Journal (1898)
"skin, and with atrophy; and secondly, that the irritative lesion produced crops
of vesicles as long as the irritation continued, together with a wrinkled ..."
11. An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science: For the by John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith (1861)
"irritative FEVER. By this is meant a simple fever arising from any irritating
cause, but unattended with local inflammation. Usually it« duration is very ..."
12. The Localisation of cerebral disease: Being the Gulstonian Lectures of the by David Ferrier (1879)
"irritative Lesions of the Motor Area.—Hitherto I have directed your attention
more particularly to destructive lesions of the motor area indicated by ..."
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