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Definition of Excitant

1. Adjective. (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate.

2. Noun. A drug that temporarily quickens some vital process.

Definition of Excitant

1. a. Tending to excite; exciting.

2. n. An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

Definition of Excitant

1. Adjective. exciting; stimulating ¹

2. Noun. Something that excites or stimulates; a stimulant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Excitant

1. a stimulant [n -S] - See also: stimulant

Medical Definition of Excitant

1. An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitant

excision biopsy excision repair excisional excisional biopsy excisionase excisions excitabilities excitability excitable excitable area

excitable cell excitable gap excitableness excitablenesses excitably excitant (current term) excitants excitate excitation excitation contraction coupling

excitation energy excitation function excitation functions excitation radiation excitation spectrum excitation wave excitations excitative excitator excitatory

Literary usage of Excitant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rational Hydrotherapy: A Manual of the Physiological and Therapeutic Effects by John Harvey Kellogg (1901)
"I. excitant (Action) EFFECTS. 615 The excitant effects of thermic applications are chiefly reflex in character. They may be divided into two classes: (A) ..."

2. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"In all these cases, the abnormal excitant is real and objective to the organ of sense; for a drop of congested blood in the optic nerve is as really foreign ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"... or in any other way as an excitant, and have so often felt consciously, and carefully observed in others a calming, subduing, tranquillizing influence ..."

4. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1868)
"... it is considered excellent as tonic, aphrodisiac, and intellectual excitant. According to a saying in vogue its use is the most costly of all the vices. ..."

5. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"speaks in the strongest terms of its efficacy as an excitant to the liver given in alterative doses. Prof. Wood says in reference to Sanguinaria : The late ..."

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