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Definition of Incitants
1. incitant [n] - See also: incitant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incitants
Literary usage of Incitants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course of Lectures on Physiology by Émile Küss, Mathias Marie Duval (1875)
"1 The whole medicine of Broussais is but a theory of incitants imported from ...
These are pathological incitants, and all diseases come from irritations. ..."
2. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"Brown said that life was maintained by incitants: Broussais said that it was
maintained by stimulants. Their physiological theory was founded on this ..."
3. The Lancet-clinic by Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ohio Valley Medical Association (1908)
"A different kind of normal nerve waste is one of the normal incitants to proper
kidney action. Another kind is one of the normal incitants to bowel ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"... microbio disease incitants, of the things they do, and the reactions of those
individuals of the higher sort who in the vicissitudes of life may become ..."
5. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"STIMULANTS, OR incitants. THE class of STIMULANTS, or incitants, so very extensive,
that order to exhibit a methodical or natural medical arrangement of ..."
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