excitant

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

It is therefore inconceivable that the blood could receive its normal supply of adrenalin with an apathy of the degree seen in stupor unless some purely hypothetically substitutive excitant were found.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)

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