excitant

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“Et c’est quelque chose d’extraordinairement excitant pour moi.”

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023

But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impulses producing the first effect are called excitant impulses; those producing the second effect, inhibitory impulses.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

Fibers that convey excitant impulses to the heart to quicken its movements. b.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

The image results from a partial cerebral excitement, which sensation results from an excitement which also acts upon the peripheral sensory nerves, and corresponds to an external object—an excitant which the image does not possess.

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