Medical Definition of Excitor
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1. Producing stimulation, especially producing stimulation by causing tension on muscle fibre through the nervous tissue.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitor
Literary usage of Excitor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Chemical Physiology by Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, Samuel Jackson (1856)
"Spinal nerve force is composed of two distinct forces—an excitor force and a ...
excitor Nerve Force. The first, or excitor force, has a close affinity with ..."
2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1858)
"A wet excitor having been placed on the nape of the neck, the second is conducted on
... Then a metallic excitor, the end of which has the form of an olive, ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"Their excitor cells constitute the entire spinal "ganglion chain," including ...
The connector fibers of these run directly to the periphery, the excitor or ..."
4. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"... and, wherever the stimulus be applied to an excitor nerve, it will, with equal
effect, rouse its corresponding motor nerve to action. ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"The in-excitor portions of the nervous system coincide with the seat of the mental
functions. The excitor portions are chiefly dedicated to the acts of ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"AN ESSAY ON VOLITION, AS AN excitor AND MODIFIER OF THE RESPIRATORY MOVEMENTS.
Br WM. FREDERICK BARLOW, MRCS Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"Sentient and voluntary nerves are blended with the excitor and motor nerves, ...
A muscle is stimulated, the action is conveyed by an excitor nerve, ..."
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