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Definition of Overexcites
1. overexcite [v] - See also: overexcite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexcites
Literary usage of Overexcites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental pathology and therapeutics by Wilhelm Griesinger (1882)
"... which often accompanies the depressing emotions, which overexcites the brain,
and lowers the nutrition. ..."
2. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein, Jerome Henry Salisbury (1915)
"... should rarely be administered as a medicament, as either irritates the
gastro-intestinal canal, overexcites the glandular system, especially the liver, ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1827)
"Thus arrested and accumulated, it becomes an irritant, acts in the manner of
foreign bodies, overexcites the part mechanically, or in some more obscure way, ..."
4. Headaches: Their Nature, Causes, and Treatment by William Henry Day (1880)
"... and there is an excess of blood in the system, or it is propelled with an
increased activity, which overexcites the cerebral tissues and causes pain. ..."
5. The Sexual Question: A Scientific, Psychological, Hygenic and Sociological Study by Auguste Forel (1908)
"There are young people so modest that the simple thought of sexual matters
overexcites them terribly. By associating their own erotic feelings, ..."
6. The Diseases of the Stomach by William Ward Van Valzah, James Douglas Nisbet (1898)
"... particularly by sexual excesses and abuses, and by unsatisfied sexual excitement,
exhausts and overexcites in a marked manner the abdominal sympathetic. ..."
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