Definitions for excitor

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excitor ex·ci·tor

Spelling: [ik-sahy-ter, -tawr]

IPA: /ɪkˈsaɪ tər, -tɔr/

Excitor is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in excitor (ceiortx).

Definitions for excitor

noun

1. Physiology. a nerve whose stimulation excites greater action.
2. Archaic. an exciter.

Origin of excitor

First recorded in 1810-20; excite + -or²

Examples for excitor

Like the other medicines of this order, Ergot is not an excitor of the heart and circulation.

Whence it became evident that this nerve is not the excitor, but the sensory nerve concerned in glycogenesis.