What does the word stimulant mean?
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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.
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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.)
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[ Latin] Producing stimulation, stimulating.
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Usage examples for stimulant
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The young man opened his eyes as if awakened from sleep, stared about till they rested on Miss Linton, when they closed again, and he drank the stimulant with difficulty. – Middy and Ensign by G. Manville Fenn
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It is not always a simple matter to gauge the effect of alcohol on a subject unaccustomed to such stimulant. – Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
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To further that, frequent stimulant applications should be used. – Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
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