irritative

[ ir-i-tey-tiv ]

/ ˈɪr ɪˌteɪ tɪv /

serving or tending to irritate.

Pathology. characterized or produced by irritation of some body part: an irritative fever.

Origin of irritative

First recorded in 1680–90; irritate + -ive

ir·ri·ta·tive·ness, noun un·ir·ri·ta·tive, adjective

Irritative lesions in general produce muscular spasms or convulsions, while destructive lesions cause paralysis.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. |Alexander Miles
This is especially useful if there be any form of irritative cough or local excitement, such as the aged sometimes experience.

Insomnia; and Other Disorders of Sleep |Henry M. Lyman
In like manner the irritative ideas suggest to us many other trains or tribes of ideas that are associated with them.

Zoonomia, Vol. I |Erasmus Darwin
For irritative pain on the surface Aconite is most efficacious.

The Action of Medicines in the System |Frederick William Headland

Those things, which increase the exertions of all the irritative motions, are termed incitantia.

Zoonomia, Vol. II |Erasmus Darwin