'Exciting causes' definitions:

Definition of 'Exciting causes'

From: GCIDE
  • Exciting \Ex*cit"ing\, a. Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- {Ex*cit"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
  • Exciting causes (Med.), those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes. [1913 Webster]