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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.

 

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