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a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process

a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process

Serving to stimulate.

Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.

That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.

Serving to stimulate.

Anything that stimulates, as an intoxicant.

That which excites, spurs on, or produces a temporary increase of vitality; a medicine or alcoholic drink having such an effect.

Serving to excite or spur on; producing greater vitality.

Stimulating: increasing or exciting vital action.

Anything that stimulates or excites: a stimulating medicine.

Anything that stimulates.

Exciting or increasing action.

A stimulus-producing agent.

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.)

Producing stimulation.

An agent which stimulates.

Stimulating; as a n., an agent that stimulates; colloquially, an alcoholic liquor. See stimulus.

n. That which provokes or excites ;-an agent which produces an increase of vital activity in the organism or any of its parts.