excitorn.
/ɛkˈsʌɪtə//ɛkˈsʌɪtɔː/ a. = exciter n.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [noun] > one who or that which excites
fermentc1420
exciter1617
incendiary1628
electrifier1791
excitor1814
animation1817
shocker1824
hair-raiser1897
heartthrobber1903
heart-stopper1906
sizzler1942
turn-on1969
G-spot1983
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. vi. 126 All those fine first feelings, of which he had hoped to be the excitor, were already given. View more context for this quotation
1865 Cornhill Mag. May 592 It is quite credible that the messenger of death operated through..the usual excitors of disease.
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. iii. 674 Another excitor is a brush of fine wires.
b. An afferent nerve belonging to the spinal division of the nervous system. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [noun]
sensitive?a1425
motivec1475
life stringc1522
recurrent1615
life corda1631
abducent1681
cord1774
chord1783
motor1824
afferent1828
excitor1836
nerve trunk1850
mixed nerve1861
inhibitory nerve1870
nervelet1875
vaso-motor1887
pilomotor1892
lemniscus1913
1836 M. Hall Lect. Nervous Syst. 15 The true Spinal Nerves. I. The Excitors.
1836 M. Hall Lect. Nervous Syst. 21 The incident excitor nerves, the medulla, and the reflex motor nerves, constitute the system.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §62 63 Other excitor fibres..are included in the ordinary nerve-trunks.
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