Word Meanings - EXCITO-SECRETORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
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- EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - EXERT
out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of - 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. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business. - 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. - ACTIONABLE
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - FUNCTION
The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the - 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. - 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. - COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - REFACTION
Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell. - COLLIQUEFACTION
A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon. - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - UNDERACTION
Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.