exacerbative

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.