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Usage examples of stimulate.

The bulb, consisting of several combined cloves, is stimulating, antispasmodic, expectorant, and diuretic.

The common man, busied about his petty concerns, did not know nor think about collective affairs because at the time there existed no knowledge or ordered thought in an assimilable form to reach down and stimulate his mind.

One of those weapons, which had a wide application potential, was the laser - light amplification through stimulated energy radiation - the device the army found in the Roswell spacecraft and would later develop as a weapon in cooperation with Hughes Aircraft.

The volatile essential oil of Tarragon is chemically identical with that of Anise, and it is found to be sexually stimulating.

When, a few minutes later, we have perhaps ceased our effort to remember, the impulse seems of itself to stimulate the proper centres, and the necessary facts come to us apparently without any attentive effort.

Old herbalists affirmed that the root of this same Bedstraw, if drunk in wine, stimulates amorous desires, and that the flowers, if long smelt at, will produce a similar effect.

An extract made from the crushed berries by boiling them down to a thick liquor, is, when spread on linen, a capital stimulating plaster for neuralgic or rheumatic parts.

For some reason, the humans who make these stereos neglect almost completely the senses of taste, brotch, pressure and griggoalthough the olfactory appeal stimulates an approximation of taste and an alert individual may brotch satisfactorily during an emotional sequence.

They stimulate the vital processes to renewed activity, and arouse the excretory organs to remove matter which ought to be eliminated.

I suspect that the murderer added a stimulating ingredient to the hydrocyanic acid.

The secretin enters the bloodstream and stimulates the production of pancreatic secretion.

I have mentioned that one of the effects of secretin is to neutralize the acidity of the stomach contents by stimulating the production of the alkaline pancreatic juice.

Here it encounters the intestinal juice, pancreatic juice, and the bile, the secretion of all of which is stimulated by the presence of food in the alimentary tract.

It did say that the toxin stimulated the parasympathetic system and produced muscle twitches.

The parasympathetic nerve fibers, on the other hand, act to slow the heartbeat, contract the pupil of the eye and the bronchi of the lungs and stimulate the activity of the alimentary canal muscles.