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
To this satisfactory result must be added the irritative effect on enemy morale of the knowledge that whenever the weather was fine our machines hummed overhead, ready to molest and be molested.
From Cavalry of the Clouds by Bott, Alan
Thus the sickness, or inverted irritative motions of the stomach, are associated or catenated with the disturbed irritative ideas, or sensual motions, in vertigo; as in sea-sickness.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
I. Those things which increase the irritative motions, which constitute absorption, are termed sorbentia; and are as various as the absorbent vessels, which they stimulate into action.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
They are usually vesicular, pustular, or furuncular—that is to say, irritative.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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