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
Somehow, then, the habit of taking more salt was formed and its presence reacted to produce irritative conditions in the patient, which, combined with neurotic tendencies, produced the intestinal disturbance.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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 Darwin, Erasmus
The irritative ideas are nevertheless performed, though perhaps in a feeble manner, as such people do not run against a post, or walk into a well.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
No irritative phenomena are associated with such a sub-cortical lesion.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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