(n.) That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aphrodisiac activity of the purified protein is abolished by heating or proteolysis, and the native protein retains the activity after procedures for removing possible ligands such as volatile odorants, steroids, and peptides.
(2) A case of fatal poisoning due to voluntary ingestion of cantharides powder for aphrodisiac purposes is reported.
(3) Following the ingestion of an alleged aphrodisiac known as "yo-yo," a 16-year-old girl experienced an acute dissociative reaction accompanied by weakness, paresthesias, and incoordination.
(4) It is well known that yohimbine has a history of popular use because of its supposed aphrodisiac properties.
(5) These findings support the folk use of this plant as aphrodisiac and for the treatment of premature ejaculation.
(6) Tigers have been killed for traditional Chinese medicine for millennia, some of whose practitioners consider their bones an aphrodisiac.
(7) The notion that Asian traditional medicine used rhino horn as an aphrodisiac was a myth of the western media, Milliken said, but now, "rather incredibly", he said, it had been embraced by Vietnamese men.
(8) Species-specific differences in perception of pheromone concentration, molecular composition, aphrodisiacs, and other selective signals facilitate species isolation, even though the initial steps in the behavior are similar in all species.
(9) This research, and widely held cultural beliefs that portray alcohol as an aphrodisiac, may lead many males to employ alcohol as a "cure" for sexual dysfunctions.
(10) Still, aphrodisiac or not, if you've any kind of garden, you've room for lettuce.
(11) Surely the oyster is the most unsexy of aphrodisiacs?
(12) The company that pulled it, BrewDog, is a serial offender: it has, among other antics, driven a tank down Camden High Street; named a beer after the heroin-and-cocaine cocktail that killed River Phoenix and John Belushi; projected naked images of its two founders onto the Houses of Parliament; brewed beer at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean; dropped stuffed cats from a helicopter onto the City of London; employed a dwarf to petition parliament for the introduction of a two-thirds pint glass; and released, for the royal wedding of 2011, a beer containing so-called natural aphrodisiacs such as “herbal Viagra”, chocolate and horny goat weed, which it called Royal Virility Performance.
(13) The correct hypothesis must explain why: (1) AIDS includes 25 previously known diseases and two clinically and epidemiologically very different epidemics, one in America and Europe, the other in Africa; (2) almost all American (90%) and European (86%) AIDS patients are males over the age of 20, while African AIDS affects both sexes equally; (3) the annual AIDS risks of infected babies, intravenous drug users, homosexuals who use aphrodisiacs, hemophiliacs and Africans vary over 100-fold; (4) many AIDS patients have diseases that do not depend on immunodeficiency, such as Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, dementia and wasting; (5) the AIDS diseases of Americans (97%) and Europeans (87%) are predetermined by prior health risks, including long-term consumption of illicit recreational drugs, the antiviral drug AZT and congenital deficiencies like hemophilia, and those of Africans are Africa-specific.
(14) Toxicity studies were conducted on Brassica rapa, Prunus amygdalus and Zingiber officinale, used as aphrodisiacs in Arab Medicine.
(15) Quackery has for centuries used aphrodisiacs to exploit vulnerable victims, 30% of whom, through the power of suggestion, have achieved sexual success from potions, powders and genital pomades.
(16) The new method allows to differentiate aphrodisiac effect from psychostimulating and antidepressive action.
(17) Using the new method for establishment of the aphrodisiac effect the values of ED50 of the preparations Yohimbin, Testosteronum dipropionicum, Tribestan, Captogon, Coffeinum n. benzoicum and Imipramin were estimated.
(18) 4 patients had used cantharidin as an aphrodisiac and one to induce abortion.
(19) You have this unbelievable control over them, a room filled with thousands of people, it's like an aphrodisiac.
(20) Ten original apparatuses were constructed to examine aphrodisiac effect.
Provocative
Definition:
(a.) Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.
(n.) Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
(2) The sensitivity and specificity of three methods of provocation, ie, histamine, nebulized water, and exercise, were compared in 20 asthmatic and 20 control children between ages 5 and 13 years.
(3) By its pragmatic conception, modifications obtained by psychoactive agents are used (antidepressants of the group imipramine and IMAO, classical benzodiazepines and alprazolam, provocation controlled in laboratory) in order to strengthen innovating hypotheses and allow to elaborate useful treatment strategies for neuroses.
(4) The essentials of standardizations of bronchial provocation tests from the clinical point of view are mentioned.
(5) Aggressive responding was maintained by contingent presentation of periods free of point subtractions, i.e., provocations.
(6) Their medical histories were consulted and further measures were taken such as a radiological thorax study, total IgE, TDI, MDI and HDI RAST, a basal spirometric study and finally a provocation test.
(7) Thus, patients are likely to live longer after CABG if they have left main disease; three-vessel disease with left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction less than 50%), class III or IV angina, provocable ischemia, or disease in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery; two-vessel disease with proximal left anterior descending artery involvement; and two-vessel disease with class III or IV angina as well as either severe left ventricular dysfunction alone or moderate left ventricular dysfunction together with at least one proximal lesion.
(8) To further determine if basophil histamine releasability in asthma correlated to measures of airway reactivity, bronchial provocation with histamine was performed.
(9) In this study we investigated the role of interleukin 1 (IL 1) in the induction of inflammatory lesions and in the preparation and provocation of the local Shwartzman reaction.
(10) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(11) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(12) Johnson said the attacks were clearly provocations against the police.
(13) Esmolol produced slight but statistically significant enhancement of patients' sensitivity to dry air provocation.
(14) Drones are not only provocative and illegal in international law but have also led to the killing of many innocent civilians in other countries that has had a serious impact on how the US is perceived in the region.
(15) I am not a Muslim but I see that the cover has been read as yet more provocation, even an undoing of the unity of the marches in Paris and other cities.
(16) Frequency of sensitivity to foods, preservatives, colouring agents, medical substances, principally shown by provocation tests (the latter present a considerable interest, and merit frequent use); importance of bacterian, mycotic, parasitic origins; little importance of atopy; frequency of minor psychogenic disorders.
(17) It was suggested that a positive provocation test is accompanied by an increase in fibrinolytic activity in the circulating blood of patients with focal infection of the tonsil, and the increase in fibrinolytic activity is closely related to the positiveness of the provocation test.
(18) Provocation of poliomyelitis occurred in 66% of children and usually followed intragluteal injections associated with treatment of non-specific fevers.
(19) Although children with constitutional delay of growth are believed to have no medical or endocrine abnormality to explain their short stature, some controversy regarding their growth hormone secretory status has recently surfaced; some authors have reported low growth hormone levels to provocative stimuli and decreased growth hormone secretion during sleep, as well as low somatomedin C values in some children with constitutional delay of growth.
(20) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.