Definition of Excitors

1. excitor [n] - See also: excitor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitors

excito-motion
excito-nutrient
excitoglandular
excitometabolic
excitomotor
excitomotory
excitomuscular
exciton
excitonic
excitonics
excitons
excitoprotective
excitor
excitor nerve
excitoreflex nerve
excitors
excitosecretory
excitotoxic
excitotoxicity
excitotoxin
excitotoxins
excitotoxity
excitovascular
exclaim
exclaimed
exclaimer
exclaimers
exclaimeth
exclaiming
exclaims

Literary usage of Excitors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Microscopist: A Manual of Microscopy, and Compendium of the Microscopic by Joseph Henry Wythe (1880)
"FUNGI AS Excitors OF FERMENTATION AND PUTREFACTION AND CAUSES OF DISEASE. At page 137 the distinction between diseased conditions which invite fungi and the ..."

2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1858)
"These excitors are then covered by wet leather : for example, fingers of gloves. When the skin and the excitors aro perfectly dry, and the epidermis very ..."

3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"When the skin and the excitors are perfectly dry, and the epidermis very thick, ... When dry excitors are put on the skin, where it is sensible to ..."

4. An Epitome of Braithwaite's Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery by Walter S. Wells, William Braithwaite (1860)
"When the excitors are put on the surface of one muscle, the contraction of this muscle is produced, together with a sensation, which is not peculiar to the ..."

5. Northwestern Medical and Surgical Journal (1855)
"Hence if blows or galvanic currents, &c., induce contractions, it simply proves that these agencies may, under certain circumstances, become excitors of ..."

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