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 immediate excitant of his unrest was found in the college students, who passed his place of business at all hours of the day.
From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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.
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)
I at first say that this object is an excitant.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
