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Irritative   Listen
adjective
Irritative  adj.  
1.
Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent.
2.
Accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation; as, an irritative fever.





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"Irritative" Quotes from Famous Books



... uncommon as the effect of a single dose of an opiate given unadvisedly; and by their continued and habitual use (and the form of syrup of poppies is but too often administered by an indiscreet and lazy nurse, unknown by the parent), a low, irritative, febrile state is produced, gradually followed by loss of flesh, the countenance becoming pallid, sallow, and sunken, the eyes red and swollen, and the expression stupid and heavy, and the powers of the constitution at last becoming completely undermined. Such an object is to be ...
— The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. • Thomas Bull, M.D.


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