Meanings of excitant (excitants) in English

The various preparations of iron are astringents and excitants to the digestive system.

Now the emotions are as purely motor excitants as is pain.

X-rays and the high-frequency discharge are also powerful excitants.

Anger, fear, and grief are also strong excitants and, therefore, are stimuli to motor activity.

The French, excitants, irritants-nitrousoxide, alcohol, champagne.

Your appetite needs further excitants, then?

Various kinds of poisons circulating in the blood, both depressants and excitants, may affect the rapidity or the regularity of the heart.

After only two hours sleep in the last thirty-six he was having to use both chemical and software excitants to keep his edge.

During this stage morbid matter, poisons, microorganisms and other excitants of inflammation gather and concentrate in certain parts and organs of the body.

Terrified by the approach of a disastrous weakness in the presence of his mistress, he resorted to fear-thatoldest, most efficacious of excitants.

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.