Definition of Augmentors

1. augmentor [n] - See also: augmentor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Augmentors

augmented sixths
augmented third
augmented thirds
augmented triad
augmented triads
augmented unison
augmented unisons
augmenter
augmenters
augmentin
augmenting
augmentless
augmentor
augmentor fibres
augmentor nerves
augmentors
augments
augnathus
augur
augural
auguration
augured
augurer
augurers
augurial
auguries
auguring
augurous
augurs
augurship

Literary usage of Augmentors

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

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"In this condition, the cardiac augmentors being now excluded, stimulation of afferent nerves, which caused acceleration prior to section of the ..."

2. The Senile Heart: Its Symptoms, Sequelae, and Treatment by George William Balfour (1894)
"... not yet clearly understood, the same cause that inhibits the vagus also excites the augmentors, so that we have at one and the same time an ..."

3. A Text-book of Animal Physiology: With Introductory Chapters on General by Wesley Mills (1889)
"... or both together, known as accelerators or augmentors. In the vertebrates thus far examined the vagus is in reality a vago-sympa- thetic nerve, ..."

4. Memoirs of Libraries, of Museums; and of Archives by Edward Edwards, Thomas Greenwood (1901)
"CHAPTER V. The Radcliffe Library; its Founders, Benefactors, and Augmentors.—The New Museum of the Natural Sciences, and its Benefactors. ..."

5. Industrial Medicine: Being the Papers and Discussions on "The Practice of by American Academy of Medicine (1915)
"... the assertion occurs that cancer in the industries referred to was the result of chemical agents, known as augmentors, in the chronically injured site. ..."

6. On the Weapons, Army Organisation, and Political Maxims of the Ancient by Gustav Salomon Oppert, Lakshmīkānta Varmā, Śukra, Vaiśaṃpāyana, Albrecht Weber (1880)
"The two feathers which on a horse's cheeks are seen standing, are called augmentors of fame and are esteemed as ..."

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