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

Baths.—One pound of salt to four gallons of water forms a suitable salt water bath acting as a tonic and excitant to the skin.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

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 Sully, James

Sensation, then, is the phenomenon which is produced and which one experiences when an excitant has just acted on one of our organs of sense.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

Such action may be inhibitory or excitant, according to the views of the one or the other author, without affecting the main question as above stated.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various