excitant
Example Sentences
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But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a powerful excitant in fainting, languor, and headache.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
When the treatment consists of something that is so strongly excitant of feeling as ice-water, applied directly to the colon, it is easy to understand that suggestion reaches the limit of its possibilities.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The last two results, apparently anomalous, are due to the fact, which will be demonstrated later, that KHO in minute quantities is an excitant, while in large quantities it is a depressant.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
For example, the exposure of a part of the body through a loss of the bed-clothes is a frequent excitant of distressing dreams.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
