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

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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

To sum up, in addition to the natural excitant of our sensory nerves, there are two which can produce the same sensory effects, that is to say, the mechanical and the electrical excitants.

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

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

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