Word Meanings - EXCITO-NUTRIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.

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• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• MODIFICATION
  The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• REFLEXITY
  The state or condition of being reflected.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• REFLEXLY
  In a reflex manner; reflectively.
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• REFLEXIBILITY
  The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MODIFICATIVE
  That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
• EXCITO-NUTRIENT
  Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
• REFLEX
  1. To reflect. Shak. 2. To bend back; to turn back. J. Gregory.
• MODIFIABILITY
  Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• REMODIFICATION
  The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.