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
The cell-bodies of the excitant fibers are found in the sympathetic ganglia, but fibers from the bulb connect with and control them.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
Lord Grantbury had contended that light was a strong excitant.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
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
It is, however, probable that the Address to the people, issued by Mr. Chase and his Free-soil friends in the latter part of January, furnished the necessary excitant.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William
