STIMULANT
\stˈɪmjʊlənt], \stˈɪmjʊlənt], \s_t_ˈɪ_m_j_ʊ_l_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of STIMULANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Serving to stimulate.
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Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.
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That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.
By Oddity Software
By James Champlin Fernald
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That which excites, spurs on, or produces a temporary increase of vitality; a medicine or alcoholic drink having such an effect.
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Serving to excite or spur on; producing greater vitality.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Stimulating, exciting to action. 2. An agent that arouses organic activity, strengthens the action of the heart, increases vitality, and promotes a sense of well-being. Stimulants are classified, according to the parts upon which they chiefly act, as cardiac, respiratory, stomachic, hepatic, cerebral, spinal, vascular, genital, etc.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Stimulating: increasing or exciting vital action.
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Anything that stimulates or excites: a stimulating medicine.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In med., anything which produces a sudden increase of vital energy and strength.
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Having the quality of increasing or exciting vital action.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A medicine which has the power of exciting the organic action of the different systems of the economy. Some stimulants are diffusible, - that is, have a prompt but temporary action; others are permanent or persistent. Tho action of stimulants is called Stimulution, Slimulatio, Incitatio. The chief stimulants are the following: Aether Sulphuricus, Ammonia, Asafoetida, Brucia, Camphora, Capsicum, Castoreum, Cinnatnomum, Copaiba, Cubeba, Guaiacum, Hydrargyri Praeparata, Iodinium, Nux Vomica, Olea Essentialia, Opium (in small dose), Piper, Sinapis, Strychnia, Zingiber, - Alcohol, Caloric, Electricity, Mental Emotions, (the Impetuous.)
By Robley Dunglison
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Producing stimulation.
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An agent which stimulates.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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