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
The first symptoms are of an irritative character—dull pain in the head, restlessness, and hyper-sensitiveness to external stimuli.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
It originates from some topical inflammation, which, if the fever is not subdued, terminates in suppuration; and differs from irritative fever in respect to the painful sensation which accompanies it.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
In this fever the pulsations of the heart and arteries are weakened or lessened, not only in the cold paroxysm, as in the irritative fever, but also in the hot paroxysm.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
When the eye is inflamed, great light becomes eminently painful, owing to the increased irritative motions of the retina, and the consequent increased sensation.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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