noun
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A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.
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Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.
adjective
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(pharmaceutical effect) Acting as a stimulant.
Examples of stimulant in a Sentence
Ergot is the most powerful known stimulant of the pregnant uterus.
Ether is thus the type of a rapidly diffusible stimulant.
Another plant universally used as a stimulant in Southern Arabia is khat (Catha edulis).
In large quantities it is a poison, but in smaller quantities it acts as a stimulant.
Its stimulant action on the iris and ciliary muscle is employed when they are weak or paralysed.
In the treatment of disease his practical innovations came at a fortunate time, when the excesses of the depletory system had only partially been superseded by the equally injurious opposite extreme of Brown's stimulant treatment.
Under one or other of these forms the use of tobacco is more widely spread than is that of any other narcotic or stimulant.
In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.
If two poisons act on the same tissue, one stimulating and the other paralysing it, the paralysing substance removes the action of the stimulant substance, not by bringing the tissue back to its normal state, but by abolishing its excitability; hence, although life may be saved by such an action, yet it can only be so within certain limits of dosage, because the antagonism is never complete at every point.
When dissolved in water, however, carbonic acid gas is a gentle stimulant to the mouth, stomach and bowel, the mixture being absorbed more rapidly than plain water; hence its greater value in assuaging thirst.
On the heart and circulation the effects are stimulant unless large doses are given, when the pulse becomes slow and blood-pressure much lessened.
In large doses they are powerful nerve poisons, but as usually taken they exercise a gently stimulant effect upon the nervous system.
Physostigmine, the active principle of the Calabar bean, acts chiefly as a stimulant to voluntary and involuntary muscles, and at the same time exercises a depressing effect upon the spinal cord.
Part of the reason for the popularity of caffeine-containing beverages is that caffeine is a central nervous stimulant.
Citrate - ferric ammonium citrate - ferric ammonium citrate - iron deficiency Nux vomica - stimulant of gastrointestinal tract, increase appetite.
Progress A diagnosis of partial large bowel obstruction was made and the patient treated with stimulant laxatives and phosphate enemas.
He scores against Greece but tests positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine and is sent home.
Most of the stimulant laxatives act on the colon.
In the 19th century, it was custom among German women to take the herb valerian regularly as a stimulant.
These are sun-dried, packed in bales, and distributed throughout the sierra region, where coca is used by the natives as a stimulant.
Strychnine is chiefly used as a stimulant.
The respiratory centre is similarly stimulated, so that atropine must be regarded as a temporary but efficient respiratory and cardiac stimulant.
From time immemorial thera- savages have been accustomed to eat the hearts of lions and other wild animals, under the belief that they will thereby obtain courage and strength like that of the animal from which the heart had been taken, but in 1889 BrownSequard proposed to use testicular juice as a general tonic and stimulant.
In whooping-cough, when a sedative is required but a stimulant is also indicated, ammonium bromide is often invaluable.
Dilute phosphoric acid is used as a gastric stimulant.
The former touched only the more highly educated classes; while to the latter, where privileged individuals alone had entry, novelties were but an undiluted stimulant for the jaded appetites of persons whose ideas of good-breeding, moreover, would have drawn the line at martyrdom.
Imipramine helps with anxiety and depression and is used when stimulant medication fails to get a response or it not appropriate to be given.
But there is emerging evidence and practice examples as to how stimulant misusers should be catered for in drug services.
It is expected that this will be the main provision for many stimulant misusers whose treatment may not involve pharmacotherapy.
In the south seas, the islanders drink Kava Kava, and will not conduct business without the mildly psychedelic stimulant.
In addition Dong Quai acts as a nerve and smooth muscle relaxant, has pain-relieving properties and is a circulatory stimulant.
The problem with taking senna to get things moving is that it is a stimulant laxative.
The stimulant laxatives senna and cascara are also safe.
It also is a strong circulatory stimulant for the hair follicles.
It is great for the stomach and the mouth, while also acting as a uterine stimulant.
It is a mild stimulant, with no harmful effects on the heart.
Motility stimulants Cisapride is the one stimulant that is well studied, with a principal effect on oesophageal acid clearance.
Cocaine is a short acting powerful, central nervous system stimulant that comes from the coca bush which grows widely in South America.
His theory of medicine professed to explain the processes of life and disease, and the methods of cure, upon one simple principle - that of the property of" excitability,"in virtue of which the" exciting powers,"defined as being (1) external forces and (2) the functions of the system itself, call forth the vital phenomena" sense, motion, mental function and passion."All exciting powers are stimulant, the apparent debilitating or sedative effect of some being due to a deficiency in the degree of stimulus; so that the final conclusion is that" the whole phenomena of life, health as well as disease, consist in stimulus and nothing else."Brown recognized some diseases as sthenic, others as asthenic, the latter requiring stimulating treatment, the former the reverse; but his practical conclusion was that 97% of all diseases required a" stimulating "treatment.
In the first place, the ridiculous and discreditable incident of the beating had time to blow over; in the second, England was a very favourable place for Frenchmen of note to pick up guineas; in the third, and most important of all, his contact with a people then far more different in every conceivable way from their neighbours than any two peoples of Europe are different now, acted as a sovereign tonic and stimulant en his intellect and literary faculty.
The difficulties of the task undertaken by the Chinese government to eradicate a national and popular vice, in a country whose population is generally estimated at 400,000,000, are increased by the fact that the opium habit has been indulged in by all classes of society, that opium has been practically the principal if not the only national stimulant; that it must involve a considerable loss of revenue, which will have to be made up by other taxes, and by the fact that its cultivation is more profitable than that of cereals, for an English acre will on the average produce raw dry opium of the value of5, 16s.
Fecal softeners should not be used as the sole regimen but may be useful given in combination with stimulant laxatives.
Most children with severe ADHD receive one or more stimulant medications.
Cocaine is a very dangerous stimulant drug, it speeds up the brain at a greater pace than any caffeine.
The stimulant effects also mean it has been commonly used by peasants who work long hours.
Parsley has general stimulant properties.
Furthermore, pregnant women should not consume turmeric as a dietary supplement because the herb may act as a uterine stimulant.
Caffeine increases blood pressure because it is a stimulant.
This drug is a stimulant that triggers feelings of high energy and euphoria, but it is highly addictive and often difficult to quit.
Methamphetamine, aka crystal meth, is a highly addictive substance that acts as a stimulant.