excitor

[ ik-sahy-ter, -tawr ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

excitor

/ ɪkˈsaɪtə /

a nerve that, when stimulated, causes increased activity in the organ or part it supplies
See exciter
a variant spelling of exciter

Origin of excitor¹

First recorded in 1810–20; excite + -or ²

It is said also to have an aphrodisiac operation, due to its powers as a cerebral excitor.

The excitor-motor ganglion is also paralysed, and finally the heart itself; death resulting from heart paralysis.

Like the other medicines of this order, Ergot is not an excitor of the heart and circulation.

Whence it became evident that this nerve is not the excitor, but the sensory nerve concerned in glycogenesis.

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[fur-kin ]

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