Meanings of excitant in English

While some light-colored oats certainly have considerable excitant power, some dark oats have little.

Opium, the type of the latter class, is in its primary action excitant, but secondarily narcotic.

The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.

The late afternoon parade is an excitant.

What importance can this have, since all the difference depends on the position occupied by the excitant?

Less than 0.9 of the excitant principle per cent.

Two of the compounds were tested as antagonists of excitant amino acids at motoneurones using isolated hemisected spinal cord preparations.

First it made me wide awake, and acted as an excitant to the nerves, similar to coffee, but much more powerful.

The cell-bodies of the excitant fibers are found in the sympathetic ganglia, but fibers from the bulb connect with and control them.

Even Capes had been for her merely an excitant to passionate love- amereidol at whose feet one could enjoy imaginative wallowings.

Owing to this increased blood pressure, the minute arteries and veins in the immediate neighborhood of the excitant dilate and increase in size.

Persons who are nervously irritable, excited and overstimulated cerebrally, with or without high blood pressure, should not take this cerebral and nervous excitant.

A smell of musk is also given off by several plants: it is a sexual excitant in the musk-deer, the musk-sheep, and the crocodile.

Baths.-Onepound of salt to four gallons of water forms a suitable salt water bath acting as a tonic and excitant to the skin.

That's enough! Their gestures were lost in the tumult and the darkness; what the crowd did see seemed to act only as an excitant.

And, thirdly, if you travel in the East, a few bottles of tincture of cantharides-highly useful as a rubefacient, excitant, et cetera-must never be omitted.