exacerbative

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English

Adjective

exacerbative (not comparable)

  1. That causes exacerbation.
    • 1880, Alexander H. Davis, Improved Theory and Practice of Medicine, page 160:
      These two points being gained, nutrition is resumed for a time, to become gradually more defective until the accumulation of these two acids in the circulation brings on another exacerbative effort to expel them from the circulation.