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 impression on which the act of cognition operates, that impression which is directly produced by the excitant of the nervous system, seems to me, without any doubt, to be of an entirely physical nature.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
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 John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
On first analysis I discovered an indifferent but true incident where amyl played a part as the excitant of the dream.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud
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
