irritative
Americanadjective
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serving or tending to irritate.
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Pathology. characterized or produced by irritation of some body part.
an irritative fever.
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"We are recording a surge in the number of irritative bronchitis infections," Jugal Kishore, the head of the medicine department at the city's Safdarjung Hospital, told PTI news agency.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
During the remainder of the intermission the pulse may be normal, or it may continue accelerated in consequence of some irritative condition; as the time for the relapse approaches it frequently again becomes abnormally slow.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
As the tumour increases in size, these irritative phenomena are replaced by localised paralyses.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
In the same way treatment of irritative or degenerative conditions in the throat and larynx, as well as in the nose, may be considered directly curative.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
But as excess of sensation may exist with excess or defect of irritation, two other kinds of fever arise from a combination of sensitive fever with the irritative, and inirritative ones.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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