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Definition of Excitatory
1. Adjective. (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate.
Similar to: Stimulative
Derivative terms: Excite, Excite, Excite, Excite, Excite
Definition of Excitatory
1. a. Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.
Definition of Excitatory
1. Adjective. stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excitatory
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Excitatory
1. Tending to produce excitation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitatory
Literary usage of Excitatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1799)
"In forming their excitatory arcs too they made ... as are adapted to enter into
the competition of the excitatory arc ; /b, on the other hand, ..."
2. Principles of Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904)
"(6)—excitatory and Inhibitory Processes in Nerve-Stimulation We must suppose, if
we apply the principle of conservation to the processes in the nerve, ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"On excitatory Electrical Changes in Nerve. ... estimation of the characters of
the propagated excitatory state constituting the so-called ' nervous impulse. ..."
4. Comparative Electro-physiology: A Physico-physiological Study by Jagadis Chandra Bose (1907)
"... sap—Physical versus excitatory theories — Objections to excitatory theory—Assumption
that wood dead unjustified— Demonstration of excitatory electrical ..."
5. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Alliance between reflexes exemplified in inhibitory actions as well as in excitatory.
... excitatory ..."
6. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"This study suggests that nicotinic agonists such as nicotine and cytisine produce
their locomotor excitatory effects through stimulation of the mesolimbic ..."
7. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"4251 Conduction of excitatory Process. Alcock, NH The rapidity of the nervous
impulse in tall and short individuals. Proc. Physiol. Soc. in 3. ..."
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