excitor
Physiology. a nerve whose stimulation excites greater action.
Archaic. an exciter.
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How to use excitor in a sentence
It is said also to have an aphrodisiac operation, due to its powers as a cerebral excitor.
The Action of Medicines in the System | Frederick William HeadlandThe excitor-motor ganglion is also paralysed, and finally the heart itself; death resulting from heart paralysis.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection | Alexander Wynter BlythLike the other medicines of this order, Ergot is not an excitor of the heart and circulation.
The Action of Medicines in the System | Frederick William HeadlandWhence it became evident that this nerve is not the excitor, but the sensory nerve concerned in glycogenesis.
British Dictionary definitions for excitor
/ (ɪkˈsaɪtə) /
a nerve that, when stimulated, causes increased activity in the organ or part it supplies
a variant spelling of exciter
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