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Definition of Excitants
1. excitant [n] - See also: excitant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitants
Literary usage of Excitants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"Abnormal excitants, or Objects.—These are such as act upon the organs of sense
... SUBJECTIVE excitants. Under the head of subjective excitants may be ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"The tests made by these two men woefully lack system of arrangement and uniformity
of conditions. —Influence of Various Nerve-excitants upon the Mental ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"The agents of the two classes we divide into two orders—excitants and sedatives.
Each order, again, is subdivided into two genera; namely, into A, excitants ..."
4. Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Arthur Albert Stevens (1903)
"Convulsions of cerebral origin cease after section, while those of spinal origin
do not. The most important spinal cord excitants are: Strychnin. Caftan. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"Physiological Studies of the Knee-jerk, and of the Reactions of Muscles under
Mechanical and Other excitants. Pathology (including Pathological Anatomy) of ..."
6. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"The strychnine group of motor excitants contains a number of drugs that act
largely on the spinal cord, increasing the activity of its reflex functions. ..."
7. The Recapitulation Theory and Human Infancy by Percy Erwin Davidson (1914)
"excitants. These may be illustrated by the fear of snakes and other animals, ...
The various native excitants have not as yet been satisfactorily described ..."
8. Familiar Letters to Young Men on Various Subjects: Designed as a Companion by William Andrus Alcott (1850)
"... or almost nothing, on mental excitants—of which, in every form of civic society,
great numbers exist. Let me call your attention for a few moments, ..."
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