Definition of Incitants

1. Noun. (plural of incitant) ¹

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Definition of Incitants

1. incitant [n] - See also: incitant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incitants

incisura thyroidea inferior
incisura thyroidea superior
incisura tragica
incisura trochlearis
incisura tympanica
incisura ulnaris
incisura umbilicalis
incisura vertebralis
incisurae
incisurae cartilaginis meatus acustici externi
incisurae santorini
incisure
incisures
incitable
incitant
incitants (current term)
incitation
incitations
incitative
incitatives
incite
incited
inciteful
incitement
incitements
inciter
inciters
incites
inciting
incitingly

Literary usage of Incitants

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

1. A Course of Lectures on Physiology by Émile Küss, Mathias Marie Duval (1875)
"1 The whole medicine of Broussais is but a theory of incitants imported from ... These are pathological incitants, and all diseases come from irritations. ..."

2. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"Brown said that life was maintained by incitants: Broussais said that it was maintained by stimulants. Their physiological theory was founded on this ..."

3. The Lancet-clinic by Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ohio Valley Medical Association (1908)
"A different kind of normal nerve waste is one of the normal incitants to proper kidney action. Another kind is one of the normal incitants to bowel ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"... microbio disease incitants, of the things they do, and the reactions of those individuals of the higher sort who in the vicissitudes of life may become ..."

5. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"STIMULANTS, OR incitants. THE class of STIMULANTS, or incitants, so very extensive, that order to exhibit a methodical or natural medical arrangement of ..."

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