vellicative
vellicative adjective: causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
Adjective
vellicative (not comparable)
- Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
- There is sometimes a peculiar sensibility in the teeth or their sheaths that induces a kind of vibratory pain, in which they colloquially said to be set on edge; and that in two ways, as follows:
From jarring noises.
From vellicative or acrid substances.1829, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, Volume 1
- There is sometimes a peculiar sensibility in the teeth or their sheaths that induces a kind of vibratory pain, in which they colloquially said to be set on edge; and that in two ways, as follows:
Origin of vellicative
From vellicate + -ive.
Questions about vellicative
- What does vellicative mean?
- Vellicative means causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
- What part of speech is vellicative?
- Vellicative is an adjective.
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