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SPINANT

\spˈɪnənt], \spˈɪnənt], \s_p_ˈɪ_n_ə_n_t]\

Definitions of SPINANT

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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An agent increasing the reflex irritability of the spinal cord.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

An agent, such as strychnine, which heightens the reflex excitability of the cord and so tends to produce convulsions.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

Any agent which acts directly upon the spinal cord.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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