excitant
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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 Francis M. Walters
Lord Grantbury had contended that light was a strong excitant.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
Uses.—The rue of the European, American and Indian pharmacopœias is emmenagogue, antispasmodic, anthelmintic, excitant, diaphoretic, antiseptic and abortive.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
If the excitant which provokes it is included in our nervous system, it is the sensation which becomes individual, hidden to all except ourselves, and constituting a microcosm by the side of a macrocosm.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
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