irritative

comparative more irritative · superlative most irritative

1. medicineserving to excite or irritate

   an irritative agent

2. medicineaccompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation

   an irritative fever

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   For the irritative ideas of the apparent motions of objects are now excited by irritation from internal stimulus

   1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

plural irritatives

1. medicineAny substance causing irritation; an irritant.